Global internet glitch: Service outage hits Cloudflare, ChatGPT, X platforms

OpenAI and Cloudflare have acknowledged the service outage and are looking to restore the service at the earliest.

Last month, several online platforms connected to Amazon Web Services were hit global service outage.

Now, the several social media platforms, including X, OpenAI ChatGPT and web portals connected to Cloudflare, have also suffered an outage worldwide including in India.

Cloudflare has acknowledge the service outage issue.

"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," reads the Cloudflare status board.

Update [7:07 PM IST]: Cloudflare has identified the issue and has made changes that has allowed Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover. Error levels for Access and WARP users have returned to pre-incident rates in select regions.

However, in India websites serviced by Cloudflare continue to suffer service outage.

"We are continuing working on restoring service for application services customers," reads Cloudflare's latest update on the status board.

Even OpenAI has confirmed the ChatGPT service outage.

ChatGPT outage issue confirmed by OpenAI. [screengrab of OpenAI status board]