DICT: Most gov't systems working OK amid Cloudflare outage

The Department of Information and Communications Technology on Tuesday assured that most government systems are unaffected by the outage that hit web-infrastructure firm Cloudflare and disrupted Internet services.

In a message to GMA Integrated News, DICT Secretary Henry Aguda said they are monitoring the impact of the Cloudflare outage on government services.

“Most government systems are working normally. Only some websites that use Cloudflare may load slowly or show errors,” Aguda said on Tuesday night.

“The issue is global and temporary. DICT is monitoring and coordinating with agencies,” he added.

On Tuesday, major Internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT, were inaccessible for thousands of users globally as Cloudflare was hit by an outage, although the outage has begun to ease.

Cloudflare, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, said it started to investigate the internal service degradation around 6:40 a.m. ET.

The incident seemingly prevented thousands of users from accessing platforms such as Canva, X, and ChatGPT as users logged reports with Downdetector.

The outage is the latest to hit internet services. Microsoft’s Azure had also faced an issue last month, while disruption at Amazon caused global turmoil among thousands of websites and some of the most popular apps, such as Snapchat and Reddit earlier in October. — JMA, GMA Integrated News