What caused Cloudflare outage? Here's why X, ChatGPT and others are down

Cloudflare, the web services provider, on Tuesday experienced an outage, which rendered numerous websites and services, including X, ChatGPT, and Letterboxd, inaccessible.

At 3:48 a.m. PT, the company released a statement on its system status page indicating that it was aware of the issue. “Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing,” the statement read. "We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly."

This outage follows just one month after Amazon Web Services suffered a similar failure, which caused significant disruption across the internet. The AWS outage impacted various sites, including Reddit, Snapchat, Roblox, and Fortnite, leading many to question the prudence and safety of relying on a few centralized services for such vast portions of the internet.

Source: Hindustan Times
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