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Cloudflare outage knocks popular services offline (TechCrunch)

A Cloudflare outage has hit several popular services including Discord, Omegle, DoorDash, Crunchyroll, NordVPN, and Feedly. Other popular services that have ...

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Cloudflare outage breaks large swathes of the internet (The Verge)

The problems appear to have started at around 2:30AM ET. As of 3:20AM ET Cloudflare reports that “a fix is being implemented.” The issues are most problematic ...

Cloudflare has experienced similar issues in the past such as in July and August 2020. Multiple Verge staff members found they were unable to access any websites at all during the outage as a result of using Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS service. I found that simply switching back to using my ISP’s default DNS settings resolved most of my issues.

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Most websites on Cloudflare experiencing slow down or downtime (The Siasat Daily)

Cloudflare downtime issue with API Services which run millions of websites.The incident has been reported and a fix is being worked on.

As per the update, Cloudflare has already implemented a fix and are currently monitoring the service, their API services should be back online and functioning normally. The incident has been reported and a fix is being worked on. Cloudflare, a global leader in Internet networking and a backbone of the internet has had a downtime issue with its core API Services which run millions of websites.

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Cloudflare outage briefly takes down many websites: All you need to ... (The Indian Express)

A brief outage at Cloudflare-a popular CDN choice for many companies, took down multiple websites across the globe earlier today, many of which were left ...

Indianexpress.com can confirm that many websites including Canva, Streamyard and the Nothing website are now working after being briefly down. These included websites like Discord, Canva, Streamyard and even the official website for London-based startup Nothing. Cloudflare quickly acknowledged the outage via a tweet, and announced soon after that it was working on a fix.

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Cloudflare service hit by 'widespread issues', but a fix is coming (ZDNet)

Cloudflare is one of today's major content delivery networks (CDNs). The US firm also provides Distributed Denial-of-Service (DoS) protection to online domains, ...

Furthermore, the company said the incident impacted connectivity in Cloudflare's network in "broad regions," leading to 500 errors. It appears that service has been restored to some websites and online platforms taken offline by the problem in Cloudflare's network. On Tuesday morning, a number of websites and online services suddenly went down including Feedly, Cloudflare itself, blogs, cryptocurrency services, and more.

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Zerodha, Upstox, Canva down as Cloudflare suffers another outage (Deccan Herald)

Just a week after a massive outage hit Cloudflare servers across geographies, the company suffered another setback on Tuesday with major websites down and ...

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented," reads the statement. As per the latest update, it has identified the issue and the fix is being implemented. On Tuesday, several websites were down and Cloudflare clients, such as Zerodha, Canva, Kite, Pixabay, Upstox, Discord among others were facing errors on loading websites.

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Zerodha, Upstox restore services after brief outage (Moneycontrol.com)

Online brokerage firms Zerodha and Upstox informed on June 21 that the connectivity issues on their respective platforms have been resolved after a brief ...

"Cloudflare (network transit, proxy, security provider) used by most of the internet businesses around the world, is having a global outage. "We are getting reports of intermittent connectivity issues on Kite via the Cloudflare network for users on certain ISPs. We are taking this up with Cloudflare. In the meanwhile, please try using an alternate internet connection," Zerodha said in a tweet. "Cloudflare network is back to normal and all sites are functional now," Zerodha tweeted.

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Cloudflare outage resolved, Zerodha, Groww, Discord up and running (India Today)

Several users on the internet are seeing a “500 internal server error” message. · This happens when a web server is experiencing problems. · Popular services like ...

Several apps and websites whose services were down due to the outage also notified and informed users about the same. This is the second such Cloudflare outage reported within a week. The company, on its website, said that it is investigating the issue.

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[Update: Coming back up] Large parts of the Internet are down due ... (XDA Developers)

Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure provider, commonly used for its CDN (content delivery network) and DNS services, and other allied services. CDNs cache ...

As the status website mentions, the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. This decreases the loading time for the page. Large parts of the Internet are down, and the cause for it appears to be an outage at Cloudflare. Affected websites and services include Discord, Omegle, Feedly, Zerodha, Groww, Upstox, Buffer, Medium.com, and more.

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Cloudflare outage: Zerodha, Upstox, Omegle, DoorDash services ... (Economic Times)

The Cloudflare team is aware of the ongoing service issues and is working to resolve them as quickly as possible, the internet infrastructure firm said in a ...

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Cloudflare outage disrupts sites including Google, AWS and Twitter (Tech Monitor)

Outage at US content delivery network Cloudflare causes service issues for websites across the internet, including Google, AWS and Twitter.

According to the Bank of England, 65% of UK firms use the same four cloud providers. Today's outage is not the only reason Cloudflare has been in the headlines recently. The proximity of these data centres to users means websites load faster, improving the user experience. Cloudflare is a content delivery network and edge computing provider that many web services use to improve performance and security. “Everything in this space lately has been about performance and making things faster,” he said. The incident impacts all data plane services in our network.”

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Internet Down? Cloudflare Outage Takes Websites Offline (Inc42 Media)

Major names that made it to the list during the outage included Discord, AWS, Zerodha, Airtel, Shopify, Valorant, Groww, Buffer, iSpirt, Upstox, Coinbase, ...

Downtime can lead to a huge loss of revenue and reputation for organisations. Not just individuals, but many small startups rely on social media platforms including Google Play, WhatsApp, Instagram and even Discord for businesses and communications. According to Carbonite, average downtime costs for small businesses range from $137 to $427 per minute. The websites of many businesses went down after Cloudflare, a network transit, proxy, and security provider used by most companies around the world faced problems in its system. In a statement on the company website, it said, “A critical P0 incident was declared at approximately 06:34 AM UTC [around 12:30 PM in India]. Connectivity in Cloudflare’s network has been disrupted in broad regions. Several media houses including OpIndia, Register, Inc42 Media and other platforms such as Groww, Buffer, iSpirt, Upstox, Coinbase, GitLab, League of Legends and Social Blade too were also affected.

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Cloudflare outage causes downtime in popular apps; Zerodha ... (Livemint)

The service outage began at around noon, affecting services such as brokerage platform Zerodha, communication service Discord, virtual private network (VPN) ...

A CDN, therefore, drastically reduces the amount of time that a site takes to display information by localizing servers closer to the source region of a user request. Cloudflare has confirmed that the issue was a technical glitch of the highest critical rating, causing the service network to be disrupted in “broad regions" – suggesting that the outage likely affected apps and sites worldwide. Outages such as this, albeit not regular, can affect vast swathes of the internet, bringing down various popular websites and apps that are used on a regular basis.

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Google, EFF back Cloudflare in row over pirate streams (The Register)

Google, EFF, and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) have filed court documents supporting Cloudflare after it was sued for refusing ...

- Vulnerability - Trojan - Cybersecurity Also on June 16, Google submitted a letter expressing its concern about the scope of the injunction. Its lawyers noted in court filings [ Earlier this year, a handful of Israel-based media companies took Israel.tv to court, accusing it of streaming TV and movie content it had no right to distribute.

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Sites go offline after cloud computing network Cloudflare outage (The Straits Times)

Chat platform Discord, video streaming service Crunchyroll and e-commerce platform Shopify were among the services affected. Read more at straitstimes.com.

“Cloudflare was working on a fix within minutes, and the network is running normally now,” the spokesman added. Cloudflare added that users may have had difficulty reaching websites and services that rely on its network from approximately 2.28pm to 3.20pm Singapore time. “A network change in some of our data centres caused a portion of our network to be unavailable,” said a spokesman.

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Massive Cloudflare outage caused by network configuration error (BleepingComputer)

Cloudflare says a massive outage that affected more than a dozen of its data centers and hundreds of major online platforms and services today was caused by ...

This was delayed as network engineers walked over each other's changes, reverting the previous reverts, causing the problem to re-appear sporadically. 3:56 UTC: We deploy the change to our first location. This is when the incident started, as this swiftly took these 19 locations offline. "Unfortunately, these 19 locations handle a significant proportion of our global traffic. "This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations," the Cloudflare team added. This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations."

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Cloudflare explains how it managed to break the internet (The Register)

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.

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Cloudflare Outage Impacts Crypto, Dating, and Shopping Platforms (Entrepreneur)

A Cloudflare outage affected several popular platforms such as Shopify, Grindr, Fitbit and some of the largest crypto exchanges. By Madeline Garfinkle June 21, ...

Decentralized exchanges —which involve a direct transaction between users — still incorporate risk, but the assets are stored in the self-custodian wallets rather than on an entire platform. While centralized exchanges are monitored by regulators, some argue they are more susceptible to hackers due to a larger volume of traders. "The Cloudflare team is aware of the current service issues and is working to resolve as quickly as possible," the company tweeted around 3 a.m.

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Cloudflare Fixes Outage That Knocked Hundreds of Websites Offline (Barron's)

Shopify and Discord were among the sites having issues on Tuesday morning, according to crowdsourced web monitoring tool DownDetector.

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Cloudflare suffers second widespread outage in a week, rolls out fix (Business Standard)

Retail investors bruised as stock trading apps face 'connectivity issues'

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Cloudflare Outage Causes Major Global Internet Disruptions (CRN)

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.” “

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Cloudflare Outage Knocks Hundreds of Websites Offline (Infosecurity Magazine)

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.

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Cloudflare outage takes down websites globally for over an hour ... (Business Standard)

The effect was felt by users of some of the key hotspots of internet traffic, such as Twitter, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Discord, Zerodha, Shopify, ...

More subscription to our online content can only help us achieve the goals of offering you even better and more relevant content. As we battle the economic impact of the pandemic, we need your support even more, so that we can continue to offer you more quality content. This mesh allows Cloudflare to easily disable and enable parts of the internal network in a data centre for maintenance or to deal with a problem, the internet infrastructure firm said. The outage had raised questions about the reliance of the internet on a few infrastructure companies. Last year, a major global internet outage took place on June 9, which Fastly, the company behind the issue, said was caused by a bug in its software that was triggered when one of its customers changed their settings. Over the last 18 months, Cloudflare has been working to convert all of its busiest locations to a more flexible and resilient architecture.

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Cloudflare Outage Knocks Out 'Significant Portion' of Global Traffic (Channel Futures)

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.

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Cloudflare outage brings hundreds of sites, services temporarily offline (Channel Asia Singapore)

Tuesday outage took under two hours to fix, and follows similar disruption last week that caused network performance issues across India and Indonesia.

"More often than not, while choosing or building a service, there is a focus on the kind of features and capabilities that the service would offer," he said. The incident on Tuesday was first recognised on Cloudflare’s status page at 7:43 a.m. GMT, where the vendor posted a statement saying: "Connectivity in Cloudflare’s network has been disrupted in broad regions. Cloudflare's update page showed that all services were operational at 9:13 a.m.

Cloudflare outage in 19 data centers worldwide due to own error (DataCenterNews Asia)

Cloudflare says its outage for 19 of its data centers yesterday was because of a change in a long-running project to increase resilience in its busiest ...

However, the company says it has backup procedures for handling such an event and used them to take control of the affected locations. The company says over the last 18 months, it has been working on converting all of its busiest locations to a more flexible and resilient architecture. "Diversifying an IT environment reduces the likelihood of third-party outages negatively impacting a business. A policy change 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. The impact can potentially affect organisations' digital experiences, revenues and reputations." CloudBoomi surpasses 20,000 customers. SustainabilityLegrand unveils Nexpand, a data center cabinet platformLegrand has unveiled a new data center cabinet platform, Nexpand, to offer the necessary scalability and future-proof architecture for digital transformation. Cloudflare says this new architecture provides significant reliability improvements, allowing it to run maintenance in those locations without disrupting customer traffic. CloudCloudflare outage in 19 data centers worldwide due to own errorCloudflare says its outage for 19 of its data centers yesterday was because of a change in a long-running project to increase resilience in its busiest locations. CloudTalend introduces new data health solutions for businessesTalend has announced its latest version of Talend Data Fabric, with the release of Talend Trust Score enabling data teams to establish a foundation for data health. Cloudflare says the first outage started at 06:27 UTC on June 21. The result is that any given prefixes will either be advertised or not advertised.

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Cloudflare, Microsoft 365 suffer major outages | IT World Canada ... (IT World Canada)

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.

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