A Cloudflare outage on Tuesday took hundreds of websites and services offline, including Discord, Shopify, Fitbit, Peleton, various cryptocurrency services, and Cloudflare for several hours.
Founded in 2010, Cloudflare is a US-based content delivery network (CDN) that also provides distributed denial of service protection to online domains, speed optimization, and various cybersecurity services.
The company faced similar issues last week when an outage in the India region caused several services, including Discord, Shopify, Canva, and GitLab, to experience network performance issues in India, Indonesia, and Indonesia. Europa del este.
The incident on Tuesday was first acknowledged on Cloudflare's status page at 7:43am GMT, where the company released a statement saying: "Cloudflare's network connectivity has been disrupted in large areas. Customers who attempting to reach Cloudflare sites in the affected regions will experience 500 incident impacts across all data plane services on our network."
At 7:57 a.m., Cloudflare said the issue was identified and "a fix is being implemented," and at 8:20 a.m. the fix was deployed and the company was "monitoring the results." Cloudflare's update page showed all services up and running at 9:13 am
Cloudflare has confirmed that the outage was not the result of an attack.
"A network change in some of our data centers has made some of our network unavailable," according to a statement from Cloudflare. “Due to the nature of the incident, customers may have experienced difficulties accessing websites and services that rely on Cloudflare between approximately 0628 and 0720 UTC. Cloudflare was working on a fix within minutes and the network is working normally now.
According to Venkatesh Sundar, co-founder of Indusface, a web application security company, the Cloudflare outage may require rethinking how such outages can be overcome, which could temporarily cripple business operations.
"Most of the time, when choosing or creating a service, the focus is on what kind of features and capabilities the service would offer. However, it is important to assess the ability of the vendor/service provider to help you in the event of an outage. service," he said.
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