Triple Shocker: How AWS, Cloudflare, and Microsoft outages sent ripples across the web

A technical issue with Cloudflare rocked the tech world on Tuesday as a number of popular platforms including X, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude and others came crashing down. However, this isn’t the first such incident where reliance on a major company led to other popular platforms going down, and there have been plenty of such instances this year alone.

What happened with the Cloudflare outage?

Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht apologised for the outage and confirmed that it was not linked to an attack. Knecht explained that the outage was triggered by a…