JUST-IN: Users Helpless As Cloudflare, X, Amazon, Others Experience Downtime

Social media platform X was down for many users globally, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.

Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, was also having issues that impacted other services and was not immediately clear whether the outages were related.

“We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly,” Cloudflare said on its status page.

At 1:09 p.m., Cloudflare stated that it had identified the issue and was implementing a fix.

According to Downdetector.com, OpenAI, X, AWS (Amazon Web Services), bet365, Canva, Spotify, BrightHR, and League of Legends also suffered outages.
Head of the public sector at Check Point, Graeme Stuart, a cybersecurity firm credited with creating the first firewall, said,”Cloudflare going down today sits in the same pattern we saw with the recent AWS and Azure outages. These platforms are vast, efficient and used by almost every part of modern life.”

“When a platform of this size slips, the impact spreads far and fast and everyone feels it at once,” he explained.

Stuart said the reported outages did not occur because each organisation failed on its own, but because “a single layer they all rely on stopped responding”.

“Many organisations still run everything through one route with no meaningful backup. When that route fails, there is no fallback. That is the weakness we keep seeing play out,” he said.

Stuart said the internet was meant to be resilient through distribution, “yet we have ended up concentrating huge amounts of global traffic into a handful of cloud providers.”