"Cloudflare said that it's working hard to bring services back online and is "seeing services recover," as Bloomberg reports. While we await a postmortem of what actually happened, a Cloudflare spokesperson told the outlet that it saw a "spike in unusual traffic" at around 6:20 am Tuesday morning. "We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic," the spokesperson told Bloomberg. "We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors.""
"Cloudflare offers a service that acts like a buffer between websites and users. The goal is to protect web hosts from being overwhelmed by traffic, for instance, when it comes to more malicious attempts to knock out a service through the use of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. But as the latest outage demonstrates, Cloudflare has become immensely popular, and its services are being used by hundreds of thousands of companies around the world."
An outage at Cloudflare disrupted large portions of the internet, affecting major services including X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI's ChatGPT, Spotify, and Downdetector. Cloudflare reported a spike in unusual traffic around 6:20 am and said services were recovering while engineers investigated. Cloudflare operates as a buffer between websites and users to protect hosts from overload and DDoS attacks. Broad adoption by hundreds of thousands of companies makes Cloudflare a load-bearing piece of internet infrastructure, so its failures cause cascading outages. A recent Amazon Web Services outage similarly showed how centralized platforms can take down large portions of the web.
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