A Cloudflare outage disrupted access to a number of major websites, prompting widespread reports that large parts of the internet were unavailable. The incident highlights how heavily online services rely on a small number of cloud infrastructure providers, meaning a single technical failure can affect many otherwise unrelated platforms.

Cloudflare provides security, content delivery and network services used by websites worldwide. The supplied article text does not give the cause, duration, scale or a confirmed list of affected services, so claims that “half the internet” was down should be treated as a broad description rather than a verified figure.