Cloudflare experienced a global outage lasting approximately 4 hours, taking down an estimated 15% of websites and online services including Discord, Shopify, and thousands of SaaS platforms.
Impact
- Duration: 4 hours 12 minutes
- Affected: ~15% of global web traffic
- Major services down: Discord, Shopify, Canva, Notion
- Estimated economic impact: $5.6 billion
Cloudflare attributed the outage to a misconfigured BGP route update that cascaded through its global network. The incident has reignited debate about internet infrastructure concentration and the risks of depending on a handful of CDN providers.
