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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.

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 A change in policy can mean a previously advertised prefix is no longer advertised, known as being “withdrawn”, and those IP addresses will no longer be reachable on the Internet.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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Many popular services such as Discord, Omegle, Shopify and gaming sites such as Minecraft and League of Legends were hit.

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“At 06:58 UTC the first data center was brought back online and by 07:42 UTC all data centers were online and working correctly. Depending on your location in the world you may have been unable to access websites and services that rely on Cloudflare. In other locations, Cloudflare continued to operate normally. A change to the network configuration in those locations caused an outage which started at 06:27 UTC,” Cloudflare explained.