Cloudflare resolves network outage that affected X, and other sites
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Cloudflare has resolved an issue that led to widespread outages impacting users of everything from X to ChatGPT to the New Jersey Transit system early Tuesday.
The Associated Press reported that Cloudflare said its engineers no longer saw some of the problems affecting its customers, with the web company adding that they were continuing to monitor for additional problems.
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Others platforms that experienced outages Tuesday included the social media site X, Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase, and the Moody’s credit ratings service. Moody’s website displayed an Error Code 500 and instructed individuals to visit Cloudflare’s website for more information.
New Jersey Transit told the AP that parts of its digital services, like njtransit.com, might be temporarily unavailable or slow to load. And the AP reported that New York City Emergency Management said there are reports of city services being affected by the outage. The city is continuing to monitor for disruptions.
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The outage impacted multiple platforms Tuesday, including the social media site X, Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase, Spotify, Amazon, OpenAI, Truth Social, President Donald Trump's social media platform, the online game League of Legends, and the Moody’s credit ratings service.
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On Tuesday morning, Cloudflare, a web company that helps organizations manage their internet traffic, said it was experiencing issues with its global network interrupting service for many websites and apps.
In a statement obtained by The New York Times, the web organization wrote, "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."
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In October, both Amazon and Microsoft experienced their own outages that disrupted an array of online services.
Microsoft had to fix an outage of their Azure cloud portal that left users unable to access Office 365, Minecraft and other services.
And Amazon also dealt with a huge outage of its cloud computing service that took down online services, like social media, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms.
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