Cloudflare outage explained: What happened, who was impacted, and how was it resolved? | IT Pro

A Cloudflare outage lasting over six hours on Friday impacted numerous websites, including Uber and Wikipedia, due to a faulty configuration change affecting its Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service. The issue, caused by an automated process attempting to remove customer IP prefixes, led to BGP route withdrawals and made services unreachable for affected customers. Cloudflare is implementing stricter testing and staged rollouts to prevent similar incidents.