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An outage at internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare caused errors for users of Spotify, X, and ChatGPT.

Cloudflare stated the disruption was not the result of a malicious attack.

Many major companies, including Shopify, Discord, and Walmart, utilize Cloudflare's services.

Some people opened Spotify, X (formerly Twitter), and OpenAI’s ChatGPT this morning to error codes on Tuesday, Nov. 18.

A similar outage occurred in October, tied to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing service. The outage only lasted for a few hours, but CloudFlare told USA TODAY that some services will be “briefly degraded” post-outage, but the issue was “fully resolved” after a little over four hours of disruption.

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