Cloudflare Service Disruption: This is What Occurred

Cloudflare faced another disruption, affecting the internet, yet this time the matter was resolved quickly.

Issues with Cloudflare were reported early Friday, with Downdetector indicating an increase in outage notifications for the service. (Disclosure: Downdetector is a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, the same parent company as Mashable.)

Cloudflare’s system status dashboard showed that the company was looking into “problems with the Cloudflare Dashboard and associated APIs.” According to Cloudflare, a fix has already been put in place.

The disruption seemed to impact various online platforms and services, such as Fortnite, Doordash, Shopify, Claude, League of Legends, Zoom, and others.

A few weeks prior, a major Cloudflare outage, triggered by a system glitch that ironically safeguards websites against DDoS attacks, interrupted numerous well-known internet sites and services. CEO Matthew Prince characterized it as the worst outage that Cloudflare has faced since 2019.

Update: Communications from Amazon advised Mashable that AWS is functioning normally and is not experiencing downtime. Amazon’s own status dashboard verifies this, showing no existing issues. AWS was initially listed among the services experiencing an outage due to an uptick in reports regarding an AWS outage on Downdetector, which you can view here.

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