An outage at web traffic management specialist Cloudflare has caused disruption across the internet
An outage at web traffic management specialist Cloudflare has caused disruption across the internet
Web traffic protection specialist Cloudflare is racing to recover its systems after an unspecified outage affecting its Access zero-trust platform downed multiple public-facing services, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, outage information aggregator DownDetector and social media platform X.
The issue first came to wider attention at around 11.20am in the UK – approximately 7.00am on the east coast of the US – and was initially described by Cloudflare as an “internal service degradation” causing intermittent impacts to some services.
At approximately 1.00pm UTC, Cloudflare was forced to take further steps affecting UK users specifically, pulling its WARP proxy tunnelling client offline, meaning users in London trying to access the internet via WARP saw their connections fail.
In an update made at 1.13pm UTC (8.13am EST), Cloudflare said: “We have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover. Error levels for Access and WARP users have returned to pre-incident rates. We have re-enabled WARP access in London.”
Other remediation works are ongoing, as reports of disrupted services continue to trickle in.
