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Cloudflare Outage Crashes Services, Restored After Three Hours

7/14/2026

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Cloudflare suffered a global outage starting at 11.48 am London time on Tuesday after an oversized automatically generated configuration file crashed its traffic-management software.
The failure blocked access to sites such as X and OpenAI, prevented owners from viewing dashboards, and disabled the Warp encryption service, causing connection failures.
By 2.48 pm Cloudflare announced a fix, said the incident was resolved, and pledged to improve its systems, while monitoring for remaining errors.

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Cloudflare suffered a global outage starting at 11.48 am London time on Tuesday after an oversized automatically generated configuration file crashed its traffic-management software.
The failure blocked access to sites such as X and OpenAI, prevented owners from viewing dashboards, and disabled the Warp encryption service, causing connection failures.
By 2.48 pm Cloudflare announced a fix, said the incident was resolved, and pledged to improve its systems, while monitoring for remaining errors.