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Rahim Amir

Bad updates, broken cables and blackouts - Cloudflare reveals some of the wildest reasons behind Internet downtime across the world

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  • Cloudflare summary logs a typhoon, two earthquakes, power failures, and thirteen government exam shutdowns
  • It also identified a fiber cut, drone damage to an AWS region, and a botched DNSSEC key rollover
  • The report's sharpest finding is that Tanzania's accidental power blackout looked almost identical in the data to its deliberate election-day shutdown in 2025

Cloudflare has published its latest account of what recently knocked chunks of the Internet offline, and the list reads like a catalogue of everything that can go wrong at once: a typhoon, two earthquakes a minute apart, a national power failure, ten government shutdowns timed to school exams, a fiber cut, drone damage to a cloud region, and a routine cryptographic key update that briefly made every .de website in the world unreachable.

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