If you woke up this morning and couldn't access online platforms like X , ChatGPT and Spotify , you werent the only one.

Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure platform, experienced an outage during the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 18, that appears to be affecting websites across the internet.

The outage comes nearly a month after Amazon Web Services experienced an outage, disrupting a wide range of online services for hours.

In a statement to USA TODAY around 8:30 a.m. EST, Cloudflare said it "saw a spike in unusual traffic" to one of its services around 5:20 a.m. CT.

"That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare's network to experience errors. We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic. We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without e

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