Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics outage

In this special episode, João Tomé is joined by Nitin Rao, Cloudflare’s Interim CPO, to discuss the Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics outage. The incident lasted from November 2 until November 4, impacting several customers.

We explain how one of our core data center providers failed catastrophically, and steps were taken to ensure it never happens again. These measures, which we’re calling Code Orange, involve reducing dependence on our core data centers, requiring all Generally Available products and features to have a reliable disaster recovery plan that is tested, recurring audits, and much more.

The mentioned blog:

• Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage