What is Cloudflare? The INVISIBLE reason behind today’s massive internet outage, X.com, Canva and Spotify were down because…

Cloudflare global outage: In a massive global internet outage, users from across the world reported disruption in the service of Cloudflare, thus impacting the global utility service apps like X.com (Twitter), Spotify, Canva, Open AI’s ChatGPT, Amazon Web Services and LetterBoxd were down on Tuesday evening. As a result of the massive outage, cloudflare services were in news. Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure company that is known for providing services to make websites and online applications faster, more secure, and more reliable. Here are all the details you need to know about the services provided by Cloudflare.

What is Cloudflare?

According to its official website, Cloudflare helps connect and protect millions of customers globally where everyone from individuals to the world’s largest enterprises use their unified platform of networking, security, and developer services. Through the services of Cloudflare, one can connect and secure your employees, contractors, devices, networks, apps, and data everywhere they live.

Which companies use Cloudflare for its protection?

Major companies like Spotify, X.com (previously Twitter), Canva and Open AI reportedly use the services of Cloudflare.

Thousands of users of X, the Elon Musk-owned microblogging platform, faced service disruption across India(BHARAT) and globally on Tuesday, along with other websites which rely on Cloudflare’s internet infrastructure to stay online.

Earlier in May this year, the social media platform suffered an outage globally, including in India(BHARAT), as users were unable to load new posts and were unable to log in. According to Downdetector, thousands of users struggled to access X’s webpages, as well as had issues with the app and login page.

(With inputs from agencies)