A major outage at internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare caused widespread disruptions on Tuesday, bringing down services including X, ChatGPT, and several multiplayer games. The company reported that it had identified the source of the problem after earlier acknowledging a system-wide issue on its status page. Users across multiple platforms encountered 500 errors, and Cloudflare’s own dashboard and API also failed during the outage.
While working to resolve the incident, Cloudflare temporarily disabled several services for customers in the United Kingdom. The company later confirmed that Cloudflare Access and WARP had begun to recover, with error rates returning to normal levels and WARP restored in London. Efforts are still underway to bring all affected services fully back online.
The outage coincided with scheduled maintenance at Cloudflare’s Santiago (SCL) data centre, though the company has not indicated whether the two events are linked. As one of the most dominant providers of network and security infrastructure for internet service providers, Cloudflare’s disruptions often ripple across the web. Cybersecurity experts have long warned that concentrating so much internet backbone infrastructure in the hands of a few large tech firms could lead to severe consequences when failures occur — a concern underlined once again by Tuesday’s episode.
Cloudflare outage hits ChatGPT, X, and other major internet services
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