X, Canva, ChatGPT, And More Down! Heres How Cloudflare Outage Impacted Users

X, ChatGPT, Canva, AWS, and Valorant users (including us!) are facing a massive outage right now. This outage seems to be connected with Cloudflare, which works as a content delivery network (CDN). Also Read: Canva Down? Many Users Report Issues With the Popular Online Designing Platform

Cloudflare said in a statement, “Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing. We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.” Also Read: Top 5 ChatGPT Alternatives To Use During OpenAI Outages

Downdetector, the outage-detecting platform, has even faced issues while accessing it! However, later on, it came back to its services.

Cloudflare Outage Impact

The outage impact was immediately visible across major online services, as tracked by Downdetector, an outage monitoring site that itself was temporarily affected. The outage-detecting site registered a dramatic spike in user reports. Here are the reported issues so far:

Cloudflare: Over 3,400 reports.

X (formerly Twitter): Over 1,400 reports, with users reporting difficulties loading posts and timelines.

AWS (Amazon Web Services): Over 200 reports, indicating that while the outage’s epicenter appears to be Cloudflare, it is having effects on other cloud providers or services that rely on both.

Valorant: Over 270 reports

Canva: Over 40 reports

In addition to these platforms, ChatGPT and other OpenAI tools were also struggling with accessibility, with users reporting slow loading times and an inability to access the services. Users attempting to access affected sites were commonly met with an “internal server error on Cloudflare’s network,” asking them to “please try again in a few minutes.”

What Should You Do?

If you are one of the users who are facing issues with any of these apps, then all you have to do is… wait!

In the latest update, Cloudflare says that, “We are seeing services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts.”