Cloudflare Reliability Concerns

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Recent dual global outages and significant botnet attacks underscore critical single points of failure in consolidated edge security, directly challenging reliability across hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise data centers managing power, cooling, and emerging AI workloads.
cloudflare outage
Cloudflare experienced a second service disruption within two months when standard maintenance procedures inadvertently caused the company's primary dashboard and API to fail, leading to widespread errors for customer sites globally.
Following a second major outage in a fortnight, an IT professional questions the wisdom of centralizing critical infrastructure functions like SSO and AI platforms onto a single, frequently failing edge provider.
aisuru botnet ddos
Data from Cloudflare reveals that the Aisuru botnet generated a record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service attack reaching 29.7 Tbps during the third quarter, coinciding with an overall 87% surge in network-layer security threats.