A widespread Cloudflare outage, Tuesday knocked major platforms, off-line X, OpenAI AI and top multiplayer games as the company investigates a server issue tied to scheduled data centre maintenance
Cloudflare suffered a major disruption.
resulting in outages across popular websites and services, including X OpenAI Canva and several online games. The company said it is aware of the problem and is investigating a server issue that may affect multiple customers.
The trouble began around 6 AM Eastern time when cloud flair support portal provider reported technical issues soon after users saw widespread degration on X and outrageous across major multiplayer titles, such as a league of legends and VALORANT, according to down detector reports
Cloudflare has scheduled maintenance in the SCL data centre during the period. Though it has not confirmed whether that maintenance is tied to the incident. The company said its teams were continuing to investigate the issue. Even Cloudflare is on status. Page struggled to load properly with missing CSS styling, signalling deeper infrastructure problems
Open AI services, including ChatGPT displayed error messages linked to the outage. Other platform experience, partial failures members of our team encountered intermittent disruptions with PayPal and Uber, particularly through Uber eats. The apps continued to load, but payments and order processing were inconsistent. The situation remains fluid and cloud Lory has not provided a timeline for full consultation. The story developing.
Cloudflare has scheduled maintenance
Cloud Flair, based in San Francisco, works behind the scenes to make the internet faster and safer, but when problems flare up, it results in massive Digital gridlock for internet users, cybersecurity expert Mike Chapel said. While most people think there’s a direct line between their digital device and website, what actually happens? It’s the company is like cloud Flair sites in the middle of those connections, he said
Cloud Flair is a content delivery network
Cloud Flair is a content delivery network that tax contain from 20% of the world‘s websites and mirrors them to on thousands of servers worldwide, Sid Chapel and information technology professor at the University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of businessWhen you access a website protected by cloud flare you are computer doesn’t connect directly to that side Chapel said, instead it connects to the nearest cloud flare server, which might be very close to your home that protects the website from a flood of traffic and it provides you with the faster response. It will win for everyone until it fails, and 20% of the internet goes down at the same time.
Last month, Microsoft had to deploy a fix to address an outage of its Azure cloud portal that prevented users unable to accessing Office 365, Minecraft and other services. The company wrote on its Azure status page that a configuration change it change to its Azure infrastructure caused the outage
And Amazon experienced a massive outage of its cloud computing services in October.
The company resolved the issue, but the outage took down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food, delivery, streaming, and financial platforms. Cloud Lory outage hints and nefarious traffic bike as a service impact spreads. X McDonald’s goes down Company issues statements amidst chaos
In the last few minutes cloud far has confirm it is aware of major issue affecting its global network, which is causing widespread internet outage hanging from Pala twitter to ChatGPT and ironically down detector wave of other websites and services are also experiencing outrageous
Cloud for the city speaks out :
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Don’t worry if you have issues. This is planned schedule maintenance and not part of the global outage, which should hopefully be coming to an end in progress. Schedule maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Scheduled, we will be performing scheduled maintenance in the Sydney data Centre on 2025,11-18 between 3 PM and 7UTC
Traffic might be rerouted from this location, hence there is a possibility of a slight increase in latency during this maintenance and window foreign users in the factory region for PNI/CNI customers connecting with us in this location. Please make sure you are expecting this traffic to fly over elsewhere during this maintenance window, as network interfaces. In this data Centre, the service may become temporarily unavailable. You can now subscribe to this notification via the cloud dashboard and receive the updates directly via email.
A widely used internet infrastructure, Amari said, has resolved an issue that led to an outage impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game League of Legends to the New Jersey transit system early TuesdayCloud said its engineers no longer saw some issues lagging its customers, but that they were continuing to monitor for any further problems
Other platforms that experience an outage is Tuesday include the social media site. X Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase and moods. Credit rating service mode’s website displayed an error code 500 and instructed individuals to visit Cloudflare’s website for more information.
New Jersey Transit said parts of its digital services, including NJ transit.com, may be temporarily unavailable or slow to load, and New York City emergency management said there are reports that city services are being impacted by the outage. The city is continuing to monitor for disruptions.
In France, the national railway company, SNCF website has affected its customers because some information and schedules may not be available or up-to-date. Our teams are working to restore the services as quickly as possible