Cloudflare service issues disrupt internet websites and apps

Many popular internet destinations appeared to be suffering from service issues after Cloudflare said it was dealing with "an internal service degradation."

Many popular internet services experienced slowdowns and outages Tuesday morning, with the major web infrastructure company Cloudflare saying a bug led to broad problems on its network.

Cloudflare, one of the largest internet hosting services, said just before 7 a.m. that it had begun investigating the issue. DownDetector.com, a website that tracks service outages based on user reports, noted that X, Spotify, OpenAI and Amazon Web Services all appeared to be slowed by the outage.

The company said at 9:42 a.m. that it believed the issue had been resolved.

Dane Knecht, Cloudflare's chief technology officer, apologized on X for the outages.

"I won’t mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in @Cloudflare network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us," Knecht said.