Cloudflare experienced a global outage this morning that disrupted access to hundreds of websites around the world. The outage also affected many online services and gaming servers.

What is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare acts as an intermediary between websites and Internet users who browse many popular websites through Cloudflare servers. The service is used by more than 26 million websites and processes more than 1 billion IP addresses every day. Not only does it make surfing smoother and safer, it also helps companies protect themselves from malicious data traffic such as DDoS attacks.

Which sites and services were down?

The most well-known sites that were temporarily unavailable include Discord, Twitter, NordVPN, Crunchyroll, Google, Roblox, Fitbit, Coinbase and Shopify. Gaming servers such as League of Legends and Genshin Impact were also affected by the outage.

The problem has now been resolved, but the cause was not stated.

Last week, on June 15, there was also a major service outage that affected some parts of the network in India, Indonesia and Eastern Europe. However, a hacker attack is not said to have been the cause. The outage was also only a few minutes long and was due to increased resource consumption due to a software release.

Further sources: TechCrunch , The Scotsman , futurezone

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