Cloudflare confirms yesterday’s massive service outage was NOT a security incident – your data is completely safe.
The 2.5-hour Cloudflare outage started at 17:52 UTC when Workers KV system crashed, affecting edge computing and AI services globally. The root cause? A third-party cloud provider failure that knocked out Cloudflare’s key-value storage infrastructure.
Workers KV, Cloudflare’s serverless computing platform, is critical for many services. When it failed, cascading issues hit multiple components across their network.
The good news: Cloudflare has resolved the outage and published a detailed post-mortem. No data was lost or compromised during the incident.
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