Cloudflare suffered a major outage on Nov. 18, and it took many major platforms down with it. OpenAI, Spotify, X, and Canva were among just some of the websites and services that went down Tuesday morning. Feel like you're experiencing deja vu? Well, you're not.

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Major internet platforms are experiencing service disruptions on the morning of Nov. 18, following a reported outage by Cloudflare.