Cloudflare Disruption Brings Numerous Websites and Services to a Halt

Affected were, among others, X (formerly Twitter), Canva, Truth Social, as well as the AI tool ChatGPT from OpenAI. In Austria, the website of the daily newspaper "Kurier" was affected, and the page of the Financial Market Authority (FMA) was not accessible.

Problems with Access Infrastructure

Cloudflare is a global internet infrastructure and security provider whose services are actually supposed to make websites and online applications faster, safer, and more stable. The US service is particularly known for its DDoS protection. This means it protects websites from being crippled by massive requests. This is also the reason why large publications and web portals rely on Cloudflare.

Partial Recovery, Cause Still Unclear

On the status website, the company initially reported: "Cloudflare is aware of an issue affecting multiple customers and is currently investigating it." They are working to understand the full impact and resolve the issue. Later, it was stated: "We are observing a recovery of services, but customers may continue to experience above-average error rates as we continue our remediation efforts."

In October, server problems at the cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) caused disruptions worldwide for numerous online services. At that time, in addition to Amazon's own services, payment service providers, stock exchange platforms, and game providers were also affected.

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