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Cloudflare service outage June 12, 2025

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Re: Cloudflare service outage June 12, 2025

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Post by Dave_Wishengrad »

Cloudflare isn’t just protecting websites — it’s also silently blocking people who share truth that challenges power. After I exposed that withholding the truth that life is most important is a betrayal of all life on Earth, someone at Cloudflare blacklisted me in retaliation. This wasn’t an automated filter — it was a manual, targeted act to suppress the cure and stop others from seeing it. Most websites using Cloudflare have no idea this is happening behind the scenes. The truth is being hidden, not by accident, but by those who’ve already chosen betrayal

Re: Cloudflare service outage June 12, 2025

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Post by fastest963 »

Manouchehri wrote: post #9
fastest963 wrote: post #3

It's not clear what the actual issue was. My best guess is that Workers KV was in transition to B2 from a combination of GCS and "a storage provider" before. A step in transitioning to B2 involved removing the "a storage provider" and relying just on GCS for some period of time because of consistency concerns. Today's GCS outage was unfortunately timed and they didn't have coverage to support GCS being down. Separate…

I don’t think Cloudflare is using B2; Backblaze isn’t listed as a sub-processor. https://www.cloudflare.com/gdpr/subprocessors/cloudflare-ser...

Woops, I meant R2.

Re: Cloudflare service outage June 12, 2025

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Post by togume »

Annoying that they don’t mention the third party cloud provider (legal reasons?), so we have to assume. The evidence of their architectural reliance on GCP for storage is the most likely culprit I’ve come across. Is that right?

And then, assuming, between GCP and Cloudflare being down, the rest of the dominos fall.

Is this directionally accurate? What’s wrong or missing?

Re: Cloudflare service outage June 12, 2025

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Post by remram »

This blog post is a lot more obscure than usual. Sometimes with sentences directly contradicting itself, like:

> Workers KV is built as what we call a “coreless” service which means there should be no single point of failure as the service runs independently in each of our locations worldwide. However, Workers KV today relies on a central data store to provide a source of truth for data.

Honestly the blog post overall makes me think that all KV data is just stored on GCS. Not once do they refer to the GCP store as "metadata" or anything like that.

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