Cloudflare Down LIVE – A massive global outage hit platforms like ChatGPT, X, Spotify, Canva and gaming services worldwide. Cloudflare confirms the issue is fixed and services are recovering.
Cloudflare Down LIVE: What Happened Today?
The internet faced a major disruption as Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest internet infrastructure providers, suffered a global outage. Popular platforms including ChatGPT, X (Twitter), Spotify, Perplexity AI, AWS, Canva, PayPal, League of Legends and dozens of others went down for millions of users.
Cloudflare confirmed a critical internal service degradation, saying that some services were “intermittently impacted” before issuing a fix.
Cloudflare Down LIVE: Root Cause Behind the Outage
Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht explained that the outage occurred due to:
- A latent bug inside their bot-mitigation service
- A routine configuration change that triggered system crashes
- A feature file that doubled in size, causing widespread failures
- This led to cascading errors across Cloudflare’s global network
The company clarified that this was not a cyberattack.
Cloudflare Down LIVE: Which Platforms Were Affected?
A long list of websites and apps were impacted globally:
- ChatGPT
- X (formerly Twitter)
- Spotify
- Perplexity AI
- Canva
- PayPal
- Google Cloud services
- AWS
- League of Legends
- Genshin Impact
- Honkai: Star Rail
- Uber, Ikea, Azure, Microsoft Teams (reported by users)
Gamers, businesses, and social media users all experienced downtime.
Cloudflare Down LIVE: Company Issues Apology
Cloudflare’s CTO publicly apologized, saying:
“We failed our customers and the broader internet… I apologize for the impact that we caused.”
Cloudflare has rolled out a fix and stated that systems have returned to normal, though monitoring will continue.
Cloudflare Down LIVE: Why This Outage Matters
Experts highlight that today’s outage shows how AI platforms heavily rely on third-party internet infrastructure.
With rising demand from AI, streaming, and global web traffic, analysts warn:
- Outages are becoming more frequent
- Infrastructure load is reaching limits
- Even a small configuration error can disrupt half the internet
Cloudflare Down LIVE: Is Everything Back to Normal Now?
Yes — Cloudflare says the issue has been resolved, and most services including ChatGPT, X, and Spotify are now working normally.
Minor error spikes may still appear as systems stabilize.
