Web users trying to access X, OpenAI, and creative design platforms have been affected by the Cloudflare outage
Web users are facing the latest in a string of web outages amidst technical issues at Cloudflare. Users first began reporting issues at around 11.30am UK time (06.30am EST), and a host of popular websites have been affected by the incident.
Social media platform X, as well as Canva and OpenAI are among those caught up in the outage so far. Meanwhile, players on online games such as League of Legends and Valorant have also encountered difficulties.
The incident at Cloudflare comes hot on the heels of major outages at both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
Both outages caused widespread disruption for consumers and enterprises, with thousands of websites impacted globally.
Notably, Downdetector, which is used to monitor outages across the web, was also taken down temporarily. Users attempting to access the site were met with a message stating: “Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed”.
UPDATE: Cloudflare says it has identified the cause of the incident and has issued a fix.
