"Several websites are experiencing major errors apparently linked to Cloudflare, with sites such as LinkedIn and Canva seemingly suffering widespread issues. The outage comes just over two weeks after Cloudflare's last global outage, which took out a number of popular websites including ChatGPT. It's unclear at present whether the issue is a repeat of the technical problem that caused the previous outage, in which a database error in its bot management system led to widespread software failures on its network machines."
"Today's disruption underscores something many of us in cybersecurity and tech have long warned about as the Internet has grown more complex, a handful of infrastructure providers end up holding unexpectedly large power over its functioning, said Richard Ford, CTO at Integrity360. Cloudflare sits at the heart of that, providing CDN, proxying, routing, DNS and caching so that websites can stay fast, secure and resilient under load."
Several major websites experienced errors apparently linked to Cloudflare, with LinkedIn, Canva and other popular sites showing failures. The outage occurred just over two weeks after a previous global Cloudflare outage that affected sites including ChatGPT, and the current event may relate to a prior database error in Cloudflare's bot management system that previously caused software failures on network machines. ITPro reported that affected sites, and even Downdetector, returned 500 Internal Server Error messages. Most sites have since recovered while Cloudflare has not explained the issue. Recent weeks saw technical outages at AWS and Microsoft Azure, none tied to DDoS attacks. Experts recommend greater redundancy and hybrid cloud setups to reduce single-provider reliance.
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