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FM-008
Cloudflare's Edge Stayed Up. Its Control Plane Went DarkA cascading power failure took out Cloudflare's primary control plane facility. The high-availability cluster did not survive the loss of one of its three sites, and the dashboard, API, and analytics went down while the data plane kept serving customer traffic.
Cloudflare
2023-11-02
~36h
SEV-1
datacenterpowercontrol-plane