EAST LONGMEADOW, MA (WGGB/WSHM) -- Cloudflare experienced a major outage Tuesday morning, which impacted millions of internet users and critical online services worldwide. While the outage has been resolved, the incident raises concerns about internet infrastructure fragility.

The disruption affected thousands of popular platforms, including ChatGPT, X, Dropbox, Coinbase, Shopify, and the New Jersey Transit system. Sites were temporarily unavailable or slow to load during the outage. Stan Prager, owner of GoGeeks Computer Rescue in East Longmeadow, said the situation differs from recent outages involving Microsoft’s cloud portal and Amazon’s cloud computing service. “Cloudflare is an internet security service, which makes this a little more worrisome,” he said.

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