Cloudflare, one of the most prominent content delivery network and DDoS mitigation companies, experienced a brief outage on June 15, 2022 in India, the company confirmed in a statement to Medianama. https://twitter.com/thisismanpreets/status/1537029505210290180 Why it matters: Cloudflare outages are significant as they can bring down large swathes of the internet. The outage in question caused disruption to a number of Indian companies and start-ups and affected their operations. How long did the outage last: The outage lasted for nearly two hours before it was fixed by the company, TechCrunch revealed. https://twitter.com/rneelmani/status/1537035278199959553 What was the reason behind the outage: The company’s spokesperson informed Medianama that the outage was not a result of an attack. “The root cause of the issue was an increase in resource consumption due to a software release,” the company explained. Which regions were impacted: The company spokesperson said that the Cloudflare's operations were affected in India, Indonesia, and Eastern Europe. What kind of companies were impacted: Several services faced issues due to the outage which include Discord, Acko, GitLab and OSlash, TechCrunch reported. It also added that platforms like Shopify, Udemy, Canva, and Zerodha were affected due to the outage. What did the company say: “Given Cloudflare’s scale and the percentage of the Internet that relies on our network it’s understandable that whenever something breaks online people will speculate that it may have been an issue with our systems,” read the statement. “When we do have issues it is a core value at Cloudflare that we are open…
