Cloudflare experienced a significant outage on Tuesday, affecting numerous websites and services globally. This disruption impacted thousands of users trying to access popular platforms such as X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI's ChatGPT, Canva, and others.

At 3:48 a.m. PT, Cloudflare acknowledged the issue on its system status page, stating, "Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing." The company assured users that it was working to understand the full impact and mitigate the problem, promising further updates soon.

The outage has raised concerns about the reliability of centralized web services, especially as it follows a similar incident involving Amazon Web Services just a month prior, which also caused widespread disruptions across various platforms. Users are advised to stay tuned for updates as Cloudflare continues its remediation efforts.