Andrew Okeev
Major names that made it to the list during the outage included Discord, AWS, Zerodha, Airtel, Shopify, Valorant, Groww, Buffer, iSpirt, Upstox, Coinbase, GitLab, League of Legends and Social Blade
Cloudflare has acknowledged the glitch, and the services are up and running now
But downtime on major websites and applications has far-reaching economic effects, amounting to as high as $54 Mn of loss in business
The websites of many businesses went down after Cloudflare, a network transit, proxy, and security provider used by most companies around the world faced problems in its system. Besides, social media users, too, have complained about the issue with different websites across the world going down on June 21, 2022.
According to the outage tracking website Downdetector, the outage had largely affected the websites of Discord, AWS, Zerodha, Airtel, Shopify and Valorant, among others. Several media houses including OpIndia, Register, Inc42 Media and other platforms such as Groww, Buffer, iSpirt, Upstox, Coinbase, GitLab, League of Legends and Social Blade too were also affected.