Cloudflare Outage Hits Websites Globally – Here's The Latest Update On The Issue

A Cloudflare Inc. (NET) outage on Friday morning hit websites around the globe, weeks after a widespread disruption in the company’s service impacted several parts of the internet in November.

Service-tracking monitor Downdetector showed a massive spike in error reports for Cloudflare, with users reporting that either their websites or the ones they accessed were down. Some of the affected services as a result of this outage were Shopify Inc. (SHOP) and Deliveroo, among others.

However, the number of outage reports has since declined, indicating that the Cloudflare service is recovering. Some users maintain that they are still facing issues.

In a recent update on X, Cloudflare stated that the downtime was caused by a change to the company’s Web Application Firewall.

“A change made to how Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall parses requests impacted the availability of Cloudflare's network for several minutes today,” Cloudflare said in the post, while adding that the issue was not a result of an attack.

Cloudflare shares were down by nearly 2% in Friday’s pre-market trade. Retail sentiment on Stocktwits around the company trended in the ‘neutral’ territory. Cloudflare was among the top ten trending tickers on Stocktwits at the time of writing.

What Is The Current Status?

Cloudflare stated on its website that it is undertaking maintenance at three of its data centers. The company said it has rerouted traffic from these data centers in Chicago, Oregon, and Bogota to its other facilities. As a result, users in these regions might experience an increase in latency.

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