India, Nov. 18 -- Cloudflare, the web services provider, on Tuesday experienced an outage, which rendered numerous websites and services, including X, ChatGPT, and Letterboxd, inaccessible.

At 3:48 a.m. PT, the company released a statement on its system status page indicating that it was aware of the issue and has started an investigation to know what caused the outage. "Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing," the statement read. "We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly."

Cloudflare outage follows just one month after Amazon Web Services suffered a similar failure,...