Cloudflare Suffers 2nd Outage in a Week

Cloudflare, a provider of digital infrastructure services, experienced an outage on Tuesday, when several popular platforms, including Discord, DoorDash, NordVPN, Zerodha, Upstox, and others, went down for users worldwide, including in India. Cloudflare stated that it identified the problem and implemented a fix, after which several platforms resumed normal operations.

"Users may experience errors or timeouts reaching Cloudflare's network or services," the firm had said in an earlier update. "Problem with our backbone. We know what. Rollbacks etc. happening," said John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, on a Hacker News thread.

According to DownDetector, users of Coinbase and Shopify also experienced issues. Several online platforms, including Shopify, Discord, Acko, GitLab, and others, went down for users in India last week due to a Cloudflare outage. In a statement, Cloudflare stated that it was not the result of a cyber attack.

"The root cause of the issue was an increase in resource consumption due to a software release. Cloudflare was working on a fix within minutes, and the network is running normally now," the company said in a statement. Several customers in India experienced 'HTTP 504' error-based service outages, particularly for lengthy queries.