Cloudflare

The incident began at 0627 UTC (2327 Pacific Time) and it took until 0742 UTC (0042 Pacific) before the company managed to bring all its datacenters back online ...

Large cloud providers have to manage a vast degree of complexity and moving parts, significantly increasing the risk of an outage." It is completely unsustainable for an outage with one provider being able to bring vast swathes of the internet offline. Things still seemed OK... However, by 0627 UTC (2327 Pacific), the change hit the MCP-enabled locations, rattled through the mesh layer and... Moving forward to 0617 UTC (2317 Pacific) and the change was deployed to one of the company's busiest locations, but not an MCP-enabled one. What had happened was a change to the company's prefix advertisement policies, resulting in the withdrawal of a critical subset of prefixes. During this time a variety of sites and services relying on Cloudflare went dark while engineers frantically worked to undo the damage they had wrought short hours previously.

Cloudflare has resolved the 'critical' incident, which caused many websites to go down in a broad outage.

This is not the first time Cloudflare has been hit with such an issue. “The incident impacts all data plane services in our network.” Just after 9am, it confirmed that the incident had been resolved and all systems are operational.

Company acknowledges interruption was due to 'our error and not the result of an attack or malicious activity.' By Jay Fitzgerald June 21, 2022, ...

In its blog post, Cloudflare wrote: “Although Cloudflare has invested significantly in our MCP design to improve service availability, we clearly fell short of our customer expectations with this very painful incident. “In this time, we’ve converted 19 of our data centers to this architecture, internally called Multi-Colo PoP (MCP).” “Unfortunately, these 19 locations handle a significant proportion of our global traffic,” the company said. This was our error and not the result of an attack or malicious activity.” “It wasn‘t an issue caused by someone else.” “

The service provider said its network was disrupted "in broad regions"

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The list is extensive and includes technology giants such as Discord, Medium, Coinbase, NordVPN and Feedly.

“Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data centers. This was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations.” Shortly after that, the company posted a series of Twitter posts confirming its team was actively working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible.

The National Rail Enquiries website was also down and could have been affected, but it was already experiencing a surge in traffic because of today's rail ...

The National Rail Enquiries website was also down and could have been affected, but it was already experiencing a surge in traffic because of today's rail strikes which could have caused connection issues. The National Rail Enquiries website was also down and could have been affected, but it was already experiencing a surge in traffic because of today's rail strikes which could have caused connection issues. In a series of Twitter posts it confirmed it was aware of the "current service issues" and said its team was "working to resolve (it) as quickly as possible".

Cloudflare experienced a widespread outage early Tuesday that knocked out a significant portion of its global traffic. It was fixed in roughly an hour.

“While cloud services can undoubtedly be highly advantageous for companies, the ever-present jeopardy of a severe outage is there.” “This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations,” it said. “We have already started working on the changes outlined … and will continue our diligence to ensure this cannot happen again.” Given Cloudflare’s scale and the percentage of the internet that relies on our network, when we have problems it is vital that we are open and transparent about what happened, why it happened, and what we’re doing to ensure it doesn’t happen again.” Due to the nature of the incident, customers may have had difficulty reaching websites and services that rely on Cloudflare [for approximately one hour]. Cloudflare was working on a fix within minutes, and the network is running normally now. Cloudflare experienced a widespread outage early Tuesday that knocked out a significant portion of its global traffic.

Cloudflare issued a status update this morning saying a 'critical' incident was detected, while users reported issues visiting Shopify, Udemy, ...

This is not the first time Cloudflare has been hit with such an issue. “The incident impacts all data plane services in our network.” Just after 9am, it confirmed that the incident had been resolved and all systems are operational.

Website application security firm Cloudflare has published a review into the cause of the short-lived outage that rendered hundreds of websites ...

We have already started working on [making] changes and will continue our diligence to ensure this cannot happen again,” it concluded. is an added layer of routing that creates a mesh of connections. “Over the last 18 months, Cloudflare has been working to convert all of our busiest locations to a more flexible and resilient architecture,” said the blog post.

Two major IT providers suffered service problems this morning, causing CIOs and CISOs hours of grief. A huge outage affected more than a dozen of content ...

“This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations,” officials said. A change in policy can mean a previously advertised prefix is no longer advertised, known as being “withdrawn”, and those IP addresses will no longer be reachable on the Internet. Over the last 18 months Cloudflare has been trying to convert all of its busiest locations to a more flexible and resilient architecture, the company said. This mesh allows Cloudflare to easily disable and enable parts of the internal network in a data center for maintenance or to deal with a problem It began around 2:34 a.m. Eastern time and was reported by the company to be resolved about an hour and a half later. That expanded to the realization that multiple Microsoft 365 services were experiencing delays, connection and search issues.