Internet Outage Leaves Users Unable to Access Canva, LinkedIn, Other Apps as Cloudflare Confirms Downtime

Internet users around the world on Friday experienced widespread disruption due to connectivity issues affecting multiple applications that depend on the web infrastructure firm Cloudflare.

Cloudflare experienced downtime from around 10 am, which lasted for about two hours and disrupted internet services across several applications, including the online graphic design tool Canva.

Other affected sites included professional networking platform LinkedIn, internet outage tracking website Downdetector and some digital taxi apps, leaving several people stranded.

In a brief statement shortly after the incident, Cloudflare said that scheduled maintenance was in progress and urged users to be patient.

The web infrastructure company also clarified that it was investigating issues with its dashboard and related application programming interfaces (APIs) to resolve the problem.

Cloudflare provides key internet infrastructure services, including protecting websites from cyberattacks and ensuring they remain accessible during periods of high traffic.

After about an hour of the outage, Cloudflare said that it had fixed the connectivity after the outage drew public concerns.