Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size

A recent Cloudflare outage was initially suspected to be a massive DDoS attack but was later found to be caused by an internal issue where a critical file unexpectedly doubled in size and spread across the network. This file impacted the Cloudflare bot management system, leading to disruptions in core CDN and security services. The problem stemmed from a change in database permissions that resulted in the file size increase. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince confirmed that after reverting to an earlier version of the file, traffic flow returned to normal, though it took a couple of hours to stabilize the network.