The Tuesday outage took just under two hours to fix, and follows a similar disruption last week that caused network performance issues across India, Indonesia and Eastern Europe. Credit: Getty Images A Cloudflare outage on Tuesday knocked hundreds of websites and services, including Discord, Shopify, Fitbit, Peleton, various cryptocurrency services, and Cloudflare itself, offline for a number of hours. Founded in 2010, Cloudflare is a US-based content delivery network (CDN) that also provides distributed denial-of-service protection to online domains, speed optimization, and various cybersecurity services. The company faced similar issues last week when an outage in the India region caused several services including Discord, Shopify, Canva and GitLab to suffer from network performance issues across India, Indonesia and Eastern Europe. The incident on Tuesday was first recognised on Cloudflare’s status page at 7:43 a.m. GMT, where the company posted a statement saying: “Connectivity in Cloudflare’s network has been disrupted in broad regions. Customers attempting to reach Cloudflare sites in impacted regions will observe 500 errors. The incident impacts all data plane services in our network.” At 7:57 a.m., Cloudflare said the issue had been identified and “a fix is being implemented,” and by 8:20 a.m., the fix had been rolled out and the company was “monitoring the results.” Cloudflare’s update page showed that all services were operational at 9:13 a.m. Cloudflare has confirmed that the outage was not the result of an attack. “A network change in some of our data centers caused a portion of our network to be unavailable,” according to a Cloudflare statement. “Due to the nature of the incident, customers may have had difficulty reaching websites and services that rely on Cloudflare from approximately 0628-0720 UTC. Cloudflare was working on a fix within minutes, and the network is running normally now.” The Cloudflare outage could necessitate a rethink on how such outages, which could cripple business operations temporarily can be overcome, according to Venkatesh Sundar, co-founder of Indusface, a web app security company. “More often than not, while choosing or building a service, there is a focus on the kind of features and capabilities that the service would offer. However, it is important to evaluate the service provider/vendor’s ability to support you in the instance of a service outage,” he said. Related content news analysis Apple confirms it will open up the iPad in Europe this fall The latest efforts to comply with Europe’s Digital Markets Act mean developers can offer to side load apps to both iPhones and iPads in the EU. Apple has also taken steps to improve what it offers to smaller and non-commercial developers in the By Jonny Evans May 02, 2024 6 mins iPad Apple Mobile Apps news Udacity offers laid-off US workers free access to its courses for 30 days Sign-ups will be available over the next 30 days By Lucas Mearian May 02, 2024 4 mins Technology Industry IT Jobs IT Skills opinion Why you’ll soon have a digital clone of your own AI isn’t going to replace you at work. You will. By Mike Elgan May 02, 2024 7 mins Augmented Reality Generative AI Virtual Reality news analysis Workers with these AI skills are getting cash premiums As AI deployments become more critical to digital transformation projects, organizations are struggling to find skilled workers to support the new technology, so they're paying premiums for prospective hires or current employees who obtain the n By Lucas Mearian May 01, 2024 7 mins Generative AI IT Jobs IT Skills Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe