Amazon Web Services<\/a> (AWS) had a technical problem, which then caused issues for companies connecting to AWS’s data services in the United States, impacting internet services worldwide. <\/p>\n\u201cResilience is about surviving inevitable failures due to infrastructure dependencies, rather than hoping failures never occur,\u201d John Watts, an analyst at advisory firm Gartner, told Euronews Next.<\/p>\n
What caused the issue?<\/p>\n
Cloudflare said it suffered “widespread 500 errors, [with] Dashboard and API also failing”.<\/p>\n
500 error codes are a general message that means a server has encountered an unexpected condition that prevents it from fulfilling the request. It means the server knows there is an issue but cannot specify exactly what. <\/p>\n
In remediating the issue, Cloudflare said it had to temporarily disable certain services for United Kingdom users.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover. Error levels for Access and WARP users have returned to pre-incident rates. We have re-enabled WARP access in London,\u201d the company wrote on its status page. \u201cWe are continuing to work towards restoring other services\u201d.<\/p>\n
However, Cloudflare has not yet given a clear reason as to what caused the incident. <\/p>\n
During the “outage, news sites, payments, public information pages and community services all froze,” said Graeme Stewart, head of public sector at cybersecurity company Check Point.<\/p>\n
“That was not because each organisation failed on its own. It was because a single layer they all rely on stopped responding. People saw a simple error page, but the breach reached into the systems that hold up essential services,” he said, adding that this is a major cybersecurity issue. <\/p>\n
“Any platform that carries this much of the world\u2019s traffic becomes a target. Even an accidental outage creates noise and uncertainty that attackers know how to use,” he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 18\/11\/2025 – 13:58 GMT+1 \u2022Updated 19\/11\/2025 – 11:26 GMT+1 Major websites, such as OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, Facebook…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,244,3586,44,57486,61,5476],"class_list":{"0":"post-294918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-internet","14":"tag-internet-outage","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-open-ai","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-twitter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}