Cloudflare Outage: Cause, Impact, and Resilience Strategy
A massive six-hour Cloudflare outage on November 19, 2025, explaining that an internal configuration error during a security enhancement caused a critical Bot Management file to exceed its size limit, triggering cascading system failures. This incident is presented within the context of a troubling pattern, noting similar recent operational outages at Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services due to configuration issues, highlighting the growing vulnerability of the digital economy to single points of failure in complex cloud infrastructures. The text emphasizes that these events necessitate business continuity planning and multi-cloud strategies for companies, particularly those in Orange County, and positions the Managed IT service provider Technijian as an expert partner for designing resilient, secure IT architectures to mitigate future risks.
