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Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

#933

How did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? This centralization is very worrying.

When there is an accident on the interstate we should blame the centralization of traffic and advocate for no more highways.

Very worrying indeed.

Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

#934

This NYTimes article makes it sound like the problem is fixed, but I'm not seeing any improvement yet. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/business/cloudflare-down-...

Latest is:

Update - The team is continuing to focus on restoring service post-fix. We are mitigating several issues that remain post-deployment. Nov 18, 2025 - 15:40 UTC

Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

#936
If a cloud vendor with 1 million users experiences a long term outage: the vendor has a serious problem. If a cloud vendor with 1 billion users experiences a long term outage: the internet has a serious problem. Yada-yada-yada xkcd/2347 but it's the big block in the middle which crumbled

Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

#937

How did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? This centralization is very worrying.

The same reason we have centralization across the economy. Economies of scale is how you make a big business succesful, and once you are on top its hard to dislodge you.

Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

#939
> In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack.

From the CTO, Source: https://x.com/dok2001/status/1990791419653484646

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