According to early information collected from tech monitoring sources, the interruption started a little after 10:00 am, when users noticed that some of their most-used apps could not load.
Reports indicate that the outage hit platforms that rely on Cloudflare for web security and traffic management.
Among the first to be affected was Canva, the online design platform used daily by millions of creators, students and marketing teams.
Users trying to sign in were met with error messages and frozen pages.
Shortly after Canva went down, other global services also failed to load. LinkedIn, the professional networking site, was among the most widely reported.
Outage trackers such as Downdetector also experienced interruptions, preventing users from checking the scale of the problem.
A number of ride-hailing and delivery apps were also affected, leaving some commuters and customers stranded during the morning rush.
Cloudflare later released a short statement acknowledging the disruption.
The company explained that it was carrying out scheduled maintenance at the time, and that engineers were working to stabilise the network.
Cloudflare added that it was specifically investigating delays and failures affecting its dashboard and related APIs, which many applications depend on for smooth operation.
After about an hour of intensive recovery work, Cloudflare confirmed that most connectivity issues had been resolved.
Many users also reported that affected apps had slowly begun to function again.
However, questions were raised about why such a routine maintenance session resulted in disruptions of this magnitude.
This outage comes less than three weeks after a similar global incident linked to Cloudflare.
During the November 18 disruption, major platforms—including X, Grindr, Canva and ChatGPT—became inaccessible to thousands of users worldwide.
At the time, Cloudflare reported an unexpected surge in unusual traffic, which overwhelmed one of its key systems.
