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Nov 18, 2025 12:00 PM

Cloudflare Stumbled — And Tech Stocks Extend The Selloff

A major system failure at internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare Inc. (NYSE:NET) on Tuesday morning rippled across global web services, triggering a worldwide outage and sending shares of tech companies lower.

The disruption began around 6:40 a.m. EST, disabling platforms used by millions of users. Cloudflare said the issue was resolved by 9:42 a.m.

Services affected included X, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META)'s Facebook, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)'s AWS, Canva and others, according to data from Onedetector.

Cloudflare's Glitch Hit Tech Stocks

Cloudflare is one of the world's largest content delivery networks, an unseen backbone that helps keep large portions of the internet running quickly and ...