Cloudflare outage impacts several regions; AWS is also down

The Hans India site was down today around 12:10 pm due to a technical issue with Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure provider.

Cloudflare operates as a content delivery network and distributed DNS (domain name server). Its services protect website owners from peak loads, comment spam attacks and DDos (distributed denial of service) attacks. All the sites on Cloudflare CDN and AWS are down.

List of services that are down:

Dunzo

Shopify

2k Games

League of Legends

Minecraft

Steam

Amazon Web Services

Discord

DoorDash

Gitlab

Skype

UPS

Cloudflare

DigitalOcean

Udemy

Notion

Coinbase

Valorant

Crunchyroll

Patreon

Zerodha

Upstox

People took up to Twitter to show their concern about the outage.

Cloudflare has responded to this outage by saying: