Cloudflare, a company that helps websites secure and manage their internet traffic, experienced issues with its global network, the company said early Tuesday, disrupting service for many websites and apps.Newyork Times reported.
“Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers,” the company posted in a status update shortly before 7 a.m. “We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem.”
In an update about 20 minutes later, it said disruptions had begun to ease, but said it was continuing to investigate the issue.
By 8:15 a.m., the company said that error levels for some of its services had “returned to pre-incident rates,” and that it was continuing to work on restoring other services.
Cloudflare provides tools to help websites fight off cyberattacks and load content efficiently.
Multiple online services appeared to have been affected by the issues at Cloudflare, including X (formerly Twitter) and the online game League of Legends.
Spotify, Amazon and OpenAI also experienced outages, reported DownDetector, an online outage tracker.
The outage hit nearly a month after Amazon Web Services experienced problems with its service, disrupting a wide range of online services for hours.
