Cloudflare Outage: Postmortem Lessons and CDN Dependency Risks

Cloudflare's 6-Hour Outage: When Database Permissions Break the Internet

TLDR: Cloudflare's 6-hour outage affecting ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, Uber, and thousands of other sites was caused by a database permissions change that doubled a Bot Management configuration file size, exceeding hard-coded limits and crashing the proxy layer.

Link: The Pulse: Cloudflare takes down half the internet – but shares a great postmortem

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