India, Nov. 18 -- Cloudflare, a company that typically operates quietly in the background to keep large portions of the internet running seamlessly, found itself under the spotlight on Tuesday after a major outage disrupted access to several of the world's most widely used websites. The incident affected platforms including X (formerly Twitter), Canva, ChatGPT, Perplexity and others, exposing the crucial yet often invisible role Cloudflare plays in keeping the internet running smoothly.

The outage left thousands of X users across India and abroad unable to load the platform, with similar disruptions reported across multiple services. While X has not issued an official statement, Cloudflare confirmed that it was facing a widespread techni...