Users of Cloudflare and Anthropic’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Claude reported service disruptions on Friday, November 13, adding to problems caused by an ongoing Microsoft 365 outage that has affected Outlook and other workplace applications.
\n\nThe simultaneous reports triggered concerns about a wider internet disruption, with searches for phrases such as ‘Cloudflare down’, ‘Claude down’ and ‘Outlook not working’ gaining traction.
\n\nHowever, the three incidents do not appear to share a common cause. Cloudflare reported a problem with one of its infrastructure services, while Claude users faced difficulties accessing Microsoft 365 through the chatbot’s integrations. Microsoft’s separate outage affected Outlook and other connected services.
\n\nCloudflare reported elevated error rates affecting its Durable Objects service in North America. The company subsequently marked the incident as resolved at 3:44 UTC on November 13.
\n\nDurable Objects allows developers to build applications that need to store information persistently and coordinate activity across different users or processes. Problems with the service can therefore affect applications that depend on Cloudflare’s infrastructure.
\n\nCloudflare also listed scheduled maintenance at several data centre locations, including Chicago, Frankfurt, Boston and Sioux Falls. However, there was no confirmed link between this maintenance activity and the Microsoft 365 disruption.
\n\nAnthropic’s Claude also…
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