Around the same time, Cloudflare’s chief technology officer Dane Knecht explained that a latent bug was responsible in an apologetic X post.
“In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack,” Knecht wrote, referring to a bug that went undetected in testing and has not caused a failure.
If your website or service was disrupted by the Cloudflare outage, then you only have yourself to blame.
The Crowdstrike incident from last year was a wakeup call to abandon centralized services like Cloudflare. If you missed that lesson, then it is on you.
Anyone using any technology can miss something and end up in the same spot. I think the real takeaway is that there is way too much consolidation of our technology.