Cloudflare outage takes down ChatGPT, X, other internet services
CBC
Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it has identified an issue that caused outages for the social media platform X, some multiplayer games and ChatGPT, among others.
Cloudflare said on its status page earlier Tuesday that it was aware of and investigating an issue that was impacting multiple customers. There were reports of widespread 500 errors, as well as Cloudflare Dashboard and API failing.
In the process of remediating the issue, Cloudflare said it had to temporarily disable certain services for users in the United Kingdom.
"We have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover. Error levels for Access and WARP users have returned to pre-incident rates. We have re-enabled WARP access in London," the company wrote on its status page. "We are continuing to work toward restoring other services."
Cloudflare did have scheduled maintenance for its SCL (Santiago) data centre on Tuesday.
Cloudflare is a prominent internet hub providing network and security products for internet service providers. Some cybersecurity experts have warned for years about the potentially ugly consequences of allowing a handful of big tech companies to underpin the online world's infrastructure.
