Cloudflare restored its software services on Friday after a brief outage disrupted access to Coinbase and Anthropic’s Claude AI. The company’s shares slipped in premarket trading, partly because the incident followed a larger outage last month that knocked major platforms offline.
Cloudflare said the disruption lasted less than half an hour and was not caused by an attack. Instead, it came from an internal change to how its firewall processes requests. The update was intended to help guard against a newly disclosed React Server Components vulnerability. Both Coinbase and Claude AI later confirmed that their services were back online.
Reports of issues dropped quickly, according to Downdetector, though the tool noted that real user impact can vary. The event also revived questions about the risks of relying on a small number of companies for critical internet infrastructure. When any one of them stumbles, large parts of the web feel the impact.
Recent outages at Amazon’s cloud service, as well as last year’s problems tied to CrowdStrike and Microsoft, have made those concerns more urgent.
