A widespread service degradation at Cloudflare, a key content delivery network (CDN), caused major disruption to popular student resources like X, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Canva. The issue, stemming from a support portal problem, led to users being blocked by security challenge messages. As Cloudflare provides DNS and DDoS protection globally, the failure created a cascading impact, severely hindering students' access to AI tools, social media, and learning platforms critical for academic life.