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Cloudflare R2 Incident on February 6, 2025

by ko_pivot on 2/7/25, 1:37 AM with 13 comments

• by ko_pivot on 2/7/25, 1:38 AM

  > On-call attempts to re-enable the R2 Gateway service using our internal admin tooling, however this tooling was unavailable because it relies on R2.

  It's comforting to see this happen to a big tech co!

• by sfeng on 2/7/25, 11:24 AM

  You can tell a company really builds using their own products when an abuse system can take them offline!

• by j45 on 2/7/25, 2:41 AM

  Cloudflare has nice services that they make available to a lot of people for free.

  At the same time, this reminds me the cloud is someone else's computer, and seeking input and ideas of how to have a failover with other services or something.

  Does anyone know of a setup or design that can shim in a bit of redundancy with something like this? Using one cloud does kind of tie you to them a bit more.

• by mthmcalixto on 2/7/25, 1:57 AM

  Surely it was the new intern.

• by tianice on 2/7/25, 2:49 AM

  appears to be caused by service circular dependency