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Partial Cloudflare outage on October 25, 2022

What's this blog post about?

On October 25, 2022, a change to Cloudflare's Tiered Cache system caused some requests to fail with status code 530 for users. The issue lasted for almost six hours and affected about 5% of all requests at peak. The failures were due to side effects of how the company handles cacheable requests across locations. After identifying the problem, a rollback was expedited which completed in 87 minutes. Cloudflare apologized for the inconvenience caused and is taking steps to prevent such incidents from happening again.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
Oct. 26, 2022

Author(s)
John Graham-Cumming

Word count
1219

Hacker News points
115

Language
English


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