Today December 5, Cloudflare experienced a widespread network failure that sent panic across the internet aking down websites, online services, and real-time applications worldwide.
Cloudflare which is a major internet infrastructure provider that offers CDN, DNS, security, and traffic-routing services sits between millions of websites and their end users. Therefore, when Cloudflare stops, many sites don’t just slow down they break down immediately.
According to Cloudflare’s the outage was not the result of a cyberattack or external sabotage. Instead, the problem began when a configuration change triggered a bug that caused one internal “feature file” to balloon in size doubling what the software expected.
Below is the mentioned list of apps across categories that were down due to the outage of Cloudfare.
Social Media & Communication: X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn and Discord are failing to load feeds or connect to servers.
Productivity & AI:
Canva and Notion are inaccessible for many, halting creative and organizational workflows, while AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity are failing to generate responses.
Entertainment:
Spotify and Letterboxd are reporting widespread access errors.
Finance & Tech:
Coinbase, Groww, and even SpaceX operational sites have been flagged as unavailable.
eCommerce: Shopify stores and admin backends are facing intermittent connectivity issues, disrupting online retail
