Cloudflare Outage Averted: Major Websites Rebound After Overnight Issues
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Cloudflare, a crucial internet infrastructure company, resolved an issue that caused widespread outages on Tuesday, impacting high-profile websites and services. The problems, which began overnight, affected platforms like ChatGPT, League of Legends, New Jersey Transit, X, Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase, and Moody's credit ratings service. According to Cloudflare, its engineers detected the issues at 12:44 a.m. EST and worked to resolve them. Although the company continues to monitor the situation, users have reported improvements in service. The outage also hit New York City Emergency Management services, with reports of disruptions, and France's national railway company SNCF's website, which warned customers of unavailable information and schedules. Cloudflare, a San Francisco-based company, plays a vital role in making the internet faster and safer by providing a content delivery network that mirrors content from 20% of the world's websites on thousands of servers worldwide. 'When problems like this arise, it results in massive digital gridlock,' said cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple, an information technology professor at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. 'Companies like Cloudflare sit in the middle of internet connections, and when they fail, it affects millions of users.' Cloudflare's role is to protect websites from traffic overload and provide faster responses to users. However, when it fails, the consequences can be severe, as seen in recent outages affecting Microsoft's Azure cloud portal and Amazon's cloud computing service. These incidents highlight the importance of reliable cloud infrastructure in supporting online services and transactions.
