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UPDATE: Jun. 12,Gary Eberhart Archives 2025, 5:06 p.m. EDT According to the Cloudflare status page, the service issues have been fully resolved."All Cloudflare services have been restored and are now fully operational," the company wrote. "We are moving the incident to Monitoring while we watch platform metrics to confirm sustained stability."

Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday afternoon, affecting a wide variety of services, including Cloudflare.

Down Detector showed a spike of user-reported issues for the popular IT tool, but it was far from alone. User-reported issues for major sites and services flooded in. Sites like Spotify, Google, Snapchat, Discord, Nintendo, Character.ai, and more all saw spikes on Down Detector. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.)

Cloudflare has provided regular updates on the issues on its status page. Most recently, it wrote: "Cloudflare’s critical Workers KV service went offline due to an outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency." That update was posted online at about 4 p.m. ET, indicating the problems persisted, to some degree, hours after it was first identified.

"Cloudflare engineers are working to restore services immediately," the company added. "We are aware of the deep impact this outage has caused and are working with all hands on deck to restore all services as quickly as possible."

The large spike on Down Detector has begun to trend downward and, in an earlier update at about 3:15 p.m. ET, the company noted it was "starting to see services recover" but still expected "intermittent errors." According to the most recent updates, the service issues have been resolved.

What is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare, in short, supplies IT management for lots of businesses. The idea is it improves website security, hosting, and functionality and, apparently, works with many of the sites you might come across daily.

"Cloudflare powers Internet requests for millions of websites and serves 78 million HTTP requests per second on average," its site reads.

So, a disruption to Cloudflare could cause ripple effects across the digital world.

This is a developing story and will be updated as new details emerge.

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