A widespread Cloudflare outage on November 18, disrupted access to several major online platforms including OpenAI , Twitter (X), Spotify, Canva, Claude and other big platforms leaving millions of users unable to connect. The incident highlights the critical role Cloudflare plays in powering the backbone of internet via its content delivery and security services.
Cloudflare down: OpenAI, Twitter, Spotify, Canva, Claude and other big businesses that Cloudflare outage ‘disrupted’ “Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing. As reported by Downdetector, 75% users complained of server connection failures, while 18% had issues in accessing websites and 7% has issues in accessing files. Because Cloudflare provides DNS, CDN, and DDoS protection for thousands of businesses, the outage had a cascading effect.
More updates to follow shortly,” said Cloudflare. We are working alongside our 3rd party provider to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem,” said the company. As per Cloudflare’s official status page, multiple datacenters across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America experienced scheduled maintenance and re-routing issues. traffic rerouting led to latency spikes and temporary unavailability for end-users in affected regions While Cloudflare described the disruptions as part of ongoing maintenance windows. We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. “Our support portal provider is currently experiencing issues, and as such customers might encounter errors viewing or responding to support cases. Responses on customer inquiries are not affected, and customers can still reach us via live chat (Business and Enterprise) through the Cloudflare Dashboard, or via the emergency telephone line (Enterprise). The outage was detected globally, with hotspots in the U.S., Europe, and parts of Asia. Among the most notable disruptions: Twitter (X) Spotify Canva Shopify OpenAI Garmin Claude Verizon Discord TMobile AT&T League of Legends Cloudflare operates one of the world’s largest distributed DNS and content delivery networks, protecting websites from traffic overloads and cyberattacks. Outages at this scale underscore the internet’s dependency on a handful of infrastructure providers.