What AWS and Cloudflare Outages Teach Us About Cloud Configuration Risks

On Tuesday, 18 November, a Cloudflare outage took a significant part of the Internet offline, including major sites, enterprise platforms and public-facing services. Ironically, even Downdetector – the platform that provides real-time information about service outages – apparently went down for a time. This wasn’t an isolated incident, either: an AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage about a month ago caused similar disruption to thousands of dependent services and was followed a few days later by a smaller Microsoft Azure outage. If the largest Cloud providers can experience outages of this size, it’s no great stretch to suggest that all organisations

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November 20, 2025
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