Cloudflare, a company utilized to make websites faster and more secure, experienced an outage this morning at 6:20 a.m. This shutdown impacted many major sites such as X, Amazon, OpenAI, and Spotify. This issue also impacted Metea Media, leaving the website shut down for about an hour.
“Shortly after 8 a.m. EST, Cloudflare said it had identified the issue and made changes to recover its Cloudflare Access and WARP system, which both help protect companies’ traffic and devices,” USA Today said.
The changes made to recover the systems also allowed other websites to resume working. However, statements from Cloudflare release stated that the company is working to find the cause behind the unusual spike in activity right before the shutdown.
“We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic,” Cloudfirm said. “After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.”
After finding the cause of the server shutdown, Cloudflare worked to install a temporary fix until the problem is fully resolved.
“In an update to its status page around 9:57 a.m. ET, Cloudflare said it had implemented a fix to resolve the outage, though it noted some users may still experience issues accessing its online dashboard,” CNBC said.
Reports state that what Cloudflare is claiming as the cause of the outage is a file in their servers that grew beyond its expected size. This is not the first time that Cloudflare has crashed.
“The deployment of a single misconfigured rule within the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF) during a routine deployment of new Cloudflare WAF Managed rules was the cause,” Infosecurity Magazine reported.
While Cloudflare has a history of outages, many still rely on it due to its high performance in security and performance benefits. The current outage has been resolved, and the websites that previously crashed are now working.
“Cloudflare said the outage was resolved as of 9:30 a.m. EST, and all services would return to normal over the subsequent several hours,” CNBC said.
Updates will continue to be posted to cloudflarestatus.com, and an explanation will be posted to blog.cloudflare.com.
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