Several major websites across the world went down on Friday after Cloudflare experienced a sudden outage, marking the second in less than three weeks. Popular Platforms like Canva, Groww, BookMyShow, LinkedIn, Notion, Shopify, Coinbase, Zerodha, Roblox, and SpaceX websites became temporarily inaccessible, showing a “500 Internal Server Error (Cloudflare)” message.
The impact was widespread enough that Downdetector, the popular outage-tracking service, also stopped working.
Cloudflare Confirms Technical Issue
According to Cloudflare’s System Status Page, the company began investigating issues related to the Cloudflare Dashboard and associated APIs.
These issues caused several customer requests to fail or return errors. Cloudflare later confirmed that a fix had been implemented and that the team was monitoring the results.
Companies Issue Statements Amid Cloudflare Outage
Several companies acknowledged the outage.
Groww posted on X that its website was facing “technical issues due to a global Cloudflare outage.” Services have now been restored.
Canva said that its CDN provider, Cloudflare, was experiencing problems, affecting its website’s performance.
Second Cloudflare Outage in Three Weeks
Friday’s outage comes shortly after a massive Cloudflare failure on November 18, which took down major platforms such as X, Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Canva, and multiple news websites.
During the latest outage, ChatGPT remained accessible, but Claude.AI once again faced downtime.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince had later explained that the November incident, described as the company’s worst outage since 2019, was caused by a permissions change inside a key database system, triggering widespread service failures.
Is Now Canva, BookMyShow, LinkedIn, Groww, SpaceX Working?
Most affected websites have now returned online. Cloudflare says the issue has been mitigated, and all systems are being closely monitored to ensure full stability.
