Jakarta, domclub Indonesia
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Internet infrastructure company
Cloudflare
opened his voice after experiencing disturbances on Tuesday (18/11).This disruption affected several sites, such as X and the e-commerce platform Shopify.
The status page for OpenAI, the parent company behind ChatGPT, also indicated that their app and Sora were impacted by “an issue with one of our third-party service providers.”
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“We observed an unusual spike in traffic to one of the services and caused some traffic over that network to experience disruption,” said a Cloudflare spokesperson as reported.
CNBC
, Tuesday (18/11).
“We do not yet know the cause of this unusual traffic spike,” the spokesperson added.”We are all on standby to ensure all traffic is serviced without error.”
In that statement, Cloudflare representatives stated that their staff continues to strive to immediately improve the traffic in an update uploaded to its official website at 21.22 WIB.
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In Indonesia, apart from X and Downdetector, the BMKG website and the Perplexity AI platform are also inaccessible and display problem notifications on Cloudflare.
Cloudflare’s software is used by many businesses around the world, including helping manage and secure traffic for around 20 percent of the web.
Among the services provided is protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which is when someone tries to overload a website’s system with so many traffic requests that it can’t function.
The current situation has caused Cloudflare shares to fall by more than 3 percent.
The issue comes less than a month after Amazon Web Services experienced a day-long outage that crippled many online services, followed by a global outage of Microsoft’s Azure and 365 cloud services.
In July 2024, a faulty software update by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike caused widespread outages that temporarily grounded flights, affected financial services, and prompted hospitals to postpone procedures.
(chri)
