Cloudflare suffers second global outage in less than a month

(NLDO)- Cloudflare quickly deployed a fix and affected websites began to operate normally again.

On the afternoon of December 5 (Vietnam time), Cloudflare's system experienced a problem, preventing users from accessing many popular platforms. Among the affected services was Downdetector , a website that specializes in monitoring and reporting network problems.

The outage only lasted about 20 minutes. According to CNBC , Cloudflare quickly deployed a fix and affected sites began working again normally.

What worries the tech world is the frequency of the outages. This is the second time in less than 30 days that Cloudflare has suffered a serious outage.

Previously in November, a similar incident caused big names like Spotify, ChatGPT...

This time, Cloudflare shares fell as much as 4.5% in pre-market trading after multiple global websites experienced outages, prompting the company to launch an investigation.

Cloudflare has problems on December 5

Minutes later, Cloudflare said it had "deployed a patch" and was monitoring the results, which helped the stock pare its losses to about 2%.

Major platforms affected include LinkedIn, Coinbase , and Substack . According to Downdetector , users also reported spikes in issues on services like Shopify, HSBC , and Deliveroo . The issues subsided shortly after Cloudflare rolled out the patch.

Cloudflare is a software provider used by many global businesses, helping manage and secure traffic for about 20% of websites on the Internet.

Among the company's key services is protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, where hackers deliberately send an overwhelming number of requests in order to disrupt website operations.

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