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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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Zerodha, Omegle, Feedly, and more services down due to ... (91mobiles)

Popular services like Zerodha, Omegle, Feedly, DoorDash, and Discord are down due to a Cloudflare outage.

According to Cloudflare, “users may experience errors or timeouts reaching Cloudflare’s network or services.” Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming said on a Hacker News thread that the outage is “not worldwide but a lot of places. Several people have reported that they are facing login issues and crashes on these services, as per DownDetector. Ironically, DownDetector has also been affected as it runs on Cloudflare as well. Popular services like Zerodha, Omegle, Feedly, DoorDash, and Discord are down due to a Cloudflare outage.

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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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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 clients Zerodha, Canva and more suffer service outage (Deccan Herald)

Last week, Cloudflare suffered a Directed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack with 26 million requests per second. Though it was able to recover within day, ...

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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Huge Swaths of the Internet Go Down During Cloudflare Outage (Gizmodo Australia)

Close-up of logo on facade at headquarters of cyber security company Cloudflare in the South of Market (SoMA) neighbourhood of San Francisco,

A large number of websites went down early Tuesday, including many tied to Cloudflare, a web security company that provides services like protection against DDoS attacks. Other websites with issues appear to be League of Legends, Crunchyroll, and Mediacom, according to Down Detector. Websites and apps including Discord, Medium, Coinbase, Grindr, and DoorDash all appeared to be delivering errors early Tuesday, according to Down Detector.

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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 impacts several regions; AWS is also down (The Hans India)

The Hans India site was down today around 12:10 pm due to a technical issue with Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure provider.

All the sites on Cloudflare CDN and AWS are down. User reports at Downdetector indicate possible problems at Cloudflare. Cloudflare outage impacts several regions; AWS is also down. Cloudflare outage impacts several regions; AWS is also down

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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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'Half of the internet' suddenly collapses (NEWS.com.au)

Cloudflare suffered a major outage today, shutting down “half the internet” and crippling major global services including Amazon, Discord and Steam.

Outages like this have become more common in recent years, with Amazon web services (which service the other half of the internet, in general) also suffering outages in the recent past. There’s little anyone outside the effected companies can do but sit on their hands when it happens. Cloudflare suffered a major outage today, shutting down “half the internet” and crippling major global services including Amazon, Discord and Steam.

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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, 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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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 outage brings hundreds of sites, services temporarily offline (Computerworld)

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

"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. "Due to the nature of the incident, customers may have had difficulty reaching websites and services that rely on Cloudflare from approximately 0628-0720 UTC. Cloudflare was working on a fix within minutes, and the network is running normally now." The incident on Tuesday was first recognised on Cloudflare’s status page at 7:43 a.m. GMT, where the company posted a statement saying: "Connectivity in Cloudflare’s network has been disrupted in broad regions.

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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 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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Huge Swaths of the Internet Go Down During Cloudflare Outage ... (Gizmodo)

Discord, Medium, and DoorDash experienced problems. Cloudflare reported the outage lasted about two hours.

A large number of websites went down early Tuesday, including many tied to Cloudflare, a web security company that provides services like protection against DDoS attacks. Update, 4:45 a.m.: Cloudflare now reports that everything has returned to normal and “all systems” are “operational.” Other websites with issues appear to be League of Legends, Crunchyroll, and Mediacom, according to Down Detector.

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Cloudflare outage brings hundreds of sites, services temporarily offline (ARNnet)

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.

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Cloudflare black-holed its own traffic for an hour (iTnews)

Cloudflare has attributed an hour-long outage yesterday to a BGP error that made 19 of its data centres invisible to the Internet.

The company said it will work on its processes, architecture, and automation to avoid a repeat of the incident. “This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations. Cloudflare has attributed an hour-long outage yesterday to a BGP error that made 19 of its data centres invisible to the Internet.

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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.

Cloudflare outage in 19 data centers worldwide due to own error (ChannelLife Australia)

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. New actors dominated the DDoS threat landscape while application security faced tried-and-true attack vectors. 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. Techday’s Darren Price checks out the Philips Hue White and Color Ambiance Starter Kit A60. The impact can potentially affect organisations' digital experiences, revenues and reputations." Unfortunately, no transaction is completely and always ‘free’. CloudflareCloudflare 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. Cloudflare says this new architecture provides significant reliability improvements, allowing it to run maintenance in those locations without disrupting customer traffic. 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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