For several hours Tuesday, a significant portion of the internet was unavailable in Cloudflare's worst outage since 2019.

Web services company Cloudflare said it is aware of problems impacting "multiple customers" amid reports of outages at apps including X.

Cloudflare said on Tuesday morning that it was "all hands on deck" trying to work out the cause of the outage.

Cloudflare was hit by an outage that knocked several major websites and services offline for global users. OpenAI's ChatGPT, e-commerce platform Shopify and Elon Musk's social media platform X appear to have been affected by the Cloudflare issues.

Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.

Cloudflare experienced a "spike in unusual traffic” shortly before errors broke out across many major websites it serves, the internet infrastructure company told Newsweek. Read the full story here.

Many popular internet services experienced slowdowns and outages Tuesday morning, with the major web infrastructure company Cloudflare saying a bug led to broad problems on its network.

Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince apologised in the post late Tuesday, stating that this outage was the worst the company has experienced since 2019.

The company responded quickly and repeatedly on its digital owned media properties and on social media. Will it be enough to quell discontent over the scale of the outage?