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Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on ‘latent bug'
TechCrunch· 2025-11-18 15:32
Core Points - A significant internet outage occurred on Tuesday morning, affecting various services including ChatGPT, Claude, and Spotify, due to issues at Cloudflare [1] - Cloudflare identified the problem and implemented a fix within two hours, stating that the incident was resolved and services were being monitored for errors [1][3] - The outage was caused by a latent bug that emerged after a routine configuration change, leading to a degradation of network services, but it was clarified that this was not a cyber attack [2] - Cloudflare's CTO acknowledged the failure to its customers and the broader internet, promising measures to prevent future occurrences [3] - Some customers continued to experience issues with the Cloudflare dashboard, and the company is actively working on resolving these problems [3] - This outage at Cloudflare follows a similar incident at Amazon Web Services (AWS), highlighting the vulnerability of the internet infrastructure that relies on a few major companies [6]