Cloudflare, the company behind popular websites such as Spotify and OpenAI, experienced an outage that affected websites worldwide on Tuesday, Nov. 18.

The company said in a statement to USA TODAY that its services "experienced a significant outage" beginning around 5:20 a.m. EST. Cloudflare added, "Given the importance of Cloudflare's services, any outage is unacceptable. We apologize to our customers and the Internet in general for letting you down today. We will learn from today's incident and improve."

Websites affected by the Cloudflare outage should return to normal over the next several hours. Earlier in the morning, Cloudflare said in a statement to USA TODAY that it was "all hands on deck" to resolve traffic problems.

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