Cloudflare outage affects services worldwide

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Several popular websites worldwide were affected by a global outage of Cloudflare - a DNS service.

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Cloudflare released a statement on its Twitter account regarding the outage. "Cloudflare is aware of the current issue and is working to resolve it as quickly as possible," the company stated.

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It is important to point out that Cloudflare is the most popular content delivery network by a significant margin.

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"A critical P0 incident was declared at approximately 06:34AM UTC. Connectivity in Cloudflare’s network has been disrupted in broad regions,” Cloudflare said.

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Cloudflare customers in impacted regions encountered 500 errors when trying to reach Cloudflare sites. “The incident impacted all data plane services in our network,” the company said, noting that a fix had been implemented; however, “we are monitoring the results.”

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Customers of the company include large enterprises around the globe.

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