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Cloudflare outage hits internet worldwide, disrupting Instagram, Zerodha, Valorant and more

Cloudflare, one of the most widely used cloud services in the world was down once again for about half an hour.

Cloudflare, the popular CDN provider is experiencing issues. (File photo)

Cloudflare, the US-based company that provides cloud services to several websites and organisations worldwide, is down once again. The problem surfaced at around 2:26 PM IST on Friday, December 5, when several users reported trouble accessing numerous popular websites. On its status page, Cloudflare said that it is “investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs” and that a “fix has been implemented.”

Cloudflare was down for almost half an over.

Cloudflare was down for almost half an hour. (Image Source: Cloudflare)

The outage is now over and lasted for a total of 24 minutes, according to Cloudflare’s Service Issues page. The company, which handles a fifth of the internet’s traffic, operates as a layer between websites and internet users. Since it is one of the backbones of the internet, any service incident might cause millions of websites to go down worldwide.

In a statement, Cloudflare said that “this incident has been resolved. A change made to how Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall parses requests caused Cloudflare’s network to be unavailable for several minutes this morning. This was not an attack; the change was deployed by our team to help mitigate the industry-wide vulnerability disclosed this week in React Server Components. We will share more information as we have it today.”

Some Cloudflare centers may still be experiencing temporary issues. (Express Photo)

The outage might be over, but a few Cloudflare data centres in India are still affected, and the traffic is being partially rerouted, as you can see in the image above.

According to DownDetector, several users reported that they were unable to use services and websites like Zerodha, Valorant, Instagram, Crunchyroll, Shopify-based e-commerce sites, Zoom, Canva, Perplexity, Claude, Fortnite, Facebook, LinkedIn and more.

While some systems are now operational, the Cloudflare System Status page says that it is investigating an issue concerning”an increased level of errors for customers running Workers scripts, ” causing a large number of empty pages when using the list API.

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