If you’re trying to play an episode on Apple Podcasts, you might have an issue today.
Apple‘s podcasting platform was seemingly disrupted on Tuesday morning due to a large-scale Cloudflare outage that saw major online platforms affected. At 6:48 AM ET, Cloudflare reported it was “investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers” with “widespread 500 errors.” At 7:21 a.m. ET, Cloudflare reported “seeing services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts.”
According to Apple’s system status page, there are no current issues with Apple platforms; however, at the time of writing, Apple Podcasts is unavailable to Mashable staff who tried to access it, as well as users posting on social media.
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My current Apple Podcasts screen at the time of writing.
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Mashable has reached out to Apple for more information.
In a statement to Mashable via email, Cloudflare said, “We saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services beginning at 11:20 UTC. That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors. We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic. We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.
“We will post updates to cloudflarestatus.com and more in-depth analysis when it is ready to blog.cloudflare.com.”
This is a developing story and will be updated as new details emerge.
