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By Jenna Sundel
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Multiple websites experienced increased outages on Tuesday after internet infrastructure company Cloudflare reported an issue that may intermittently impact some of its services.
Cloudflare announced on its website that it had identified the issue and a fix is being implemented.
Why It Matters
Cloudflare is not the only cloud service that has experienced an outage recently. Microsoft fixed an outage of its Azure cloud portal last month that left users unable to access Office 365, Minecraft and other services. The company said that a configuration change to its Azure infrastructure caused the outage, according to the Associated Press.
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Amazon also resolved an outage of its cloud computing service last month. The outage impacted various online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms.
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What To Know
Websites impacted by the outage include:
- X
- OpenAI
- Canva
- Uber
- MindBody
- Politico
- Axios
Both Axios and Politico displayed a message that read: "Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed."
In the process of remediating the issue, Cloudflare said it had to temporarily disable certain services for United Kingdom users.
“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,” the company wrote on its status page. “We are continuing to work toward restoring other services.”
Other websites that were experiencing issues include Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase, online game League of Legends, Moody's and NJ Transit.
Cloudflare delivers a range of network services to businesses of all sizes around the world, according to its website.
What People Are Saying
**Cloudflare said in a statement to Newsweek: "**We saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare's services beginning at 11:20 UTC. That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare's network to experience errors. We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic. We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic."
OpenAI wrote on its website: "A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the recovery."
What Happens Next
Cloudflare said on its website that a fix has been implemented, and the company believes the issue has been resolved.
"Some customers may be still experiencing issues logging into or using the Cloudflare dashboard. We are working on a fix to resolve this, and continuing to monitor for any further issues," Cloudflare added.
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