Cloudflare outage disrupts multiple services as investigation continues

An outage affected Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure provider, leading to service disruptions for thousands of users across various platforms, including the social network X. Downdetector and other outage monitors registered spikes in reports shortly after 11:30 GMT, indicating widespread impact. Cloudflare acknowledged the issue on its status dashboard, stating it could potentially affect multiple customers and promising additional details as they become available. Updates followed, noting ongoing investigations into the root causes and scope of impact. The incident comes amid a broader context of industry-wide outages, including a recent Amazon Web Services disruption that took numerous sites and apps offline. The outage underscores the critical role of infrastructure providers in keeping websites and online services accessible, and highlights the ripple effects that can occur when a major backbone service experiences problems.