US EditionWhy It Feels Like Your Favorite Websites Keep Going Down
A routine configuration error caused Cloudflare's outage, part of a series impacting millions globally amid growing dependency on a few cloud providers, with 2.1 million reports Tuesday alone.
- On Tuesday, Cloudflare experienced a disruption that temporarily impacted Spotify, ChatGPT and Truth Social, caused by a configuration file crash; the company told CNN it was not a cyberattack.
- Amid growing digital reliance, experts point to consolidation among major cloud providers as Cisco's ThousandEyes logged 12 major outages in 2025, including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure disruptions.
- Bugs and configuration errors have triggered cascading failures, with some outages starting when two automated systems updated the same data simultaneously, Cisco found.
- Downdetector data show user reports spiked to 2.1 million on Tuesday, and an Amazon Web Services issue last month disrupted daily routines for millions.
- Experts warn outages will likely recur given current dependencies, and industry observers say 'it'll likely happen again'; Mike Chapple noted outages were routine weekly events twenty years ago.
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Why it feels like your favorite websites keep going down
Cloudflare experienced a disruption on Tuesday that temporarily impacted a swath of online services – from Spotify to ChatGPT and even President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform – marking the latest in a string of high-profile internet outages.
Thousands of internet users around the world were unable to browse on Tuesday, and some are still experiencing problems on major internet platforms, including X (formerly Twitter) and ChatGPT. In addition, Lithuanian news portals such as 15min, Delfi, Lrytas, Verslo žinios, BNS, Elta were also disrupted. LRT.lt explains what happened.
Many websites and internet applications were disrupted by an outage at software company Cloudflare on Tuesday (November 18).
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