Cloudflare Outage Cripples ChatGPT & More

A large-scale Cloudflare outage significantly impacted internet services on Tuesday, affecting a wide range of websites and applications, notably including ChatGPT. Users attempting to access the AI chatbot were met with error messages, indicating a dependency on Cloudflare's services. This widespread disruption also affected other prominent platforms such as PayPal and X, leading to transactional and access problems for users globally.

Microsoft's Copilot, an AI chatbot utilizing OpenAI's GPT models, remained operational during the outage. This resilience is attributed to its use of Microsoft's internal infrastructure, bypassing the affected Cloudflare services. Cloudflare, which provides essential services like content delivery, DNS, and cybersecurity, experienced a temporary outage of its own status page, highlighting the severity of the event.

Cloudflare has acknowledged the issue and is actively working on a resolution. While some affected services have seen intermittent returns, widespread problems persisted. Users are advised to monitor Cloudflare's and OpenAI's status pages for the latest updates on the ongoing situation.