Cloudflare's CTO apologizes after error takes huge chunk of the internet offline — 'we failed our customers and the broader internet'

Cloudflare's CTO issued a public apology after a bug in their core services caused a significant internet outage affecting various services. The incident was traced back to a routine configuration change that led to a crash in Cloudflare's bot mitigation layer. The outage impacted users globally, prompting Cloudflare to deploy a fix and restore affected components within hours. This marks the third major outage in recent weeks among key cloud service providers, raising concerns about handling internal service faults at scale.