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Last month, we wrote that Amazon’s cloud service sneezed, and huge chunks of the internet came down with a pretty bad cold. While it’s not yet that bad, several major websites have been intermittently peaky this morning, and it looks like Cloudflare is the super-spreader.

Though much of America might have been asleep for some of the most frustrating periods of disruption this morning, thousands of users across the US and around the world have taken to Downdetector to report problems accessing some of the internet’s biggest platforms, including OpenAI, X, and popular battle arena game “League of Legends,” as Cloudflare has been acknowledging its issues and looking to fix them.

Cloudflare, an American IT behemoth that supplies tools to protect websites from cyberattacks and helps users connect and load content online, is down around 3% in early trading on Tuesday, as investors (at least those who can connect to their brokerages) react to the issues. Though the stock began to sink in premarket trading when the problems first came to light, the wider market mood is also likely weighing on Cloudflare, with the S&P 500 Index down more than 1% as of 10:08 a.m. ET.

Amazon and Microsoft are down about 2% premarket after an analyst downgrade and amid a broader AI sell-off, as investors continue to wonder when the hyperscalers’ intense spending on AI infrastructure will pay off.

Rothschild & Co Redburn analyst Alexander Haissl downgraded both companies Tuesday to “neutral” from “buy,” breaking with many of his peers. (Over 90% of the stocks’ analysts have buy-equivalent recommendations for them, according to Bloomberg.)

The industry’s narrative that generative AI is akin to the early cloud, he wrote, is “increasingly misplaced,” saying that the underlying economics for GenAI are “far weaker than assumed.”