Cloudflare: Last night's massive outage was caused by an internal configuration error, not a network attack.

The outage stemmed from an incorrect configuration file generated after database permission adjustments, causing an anomaly in the core proxy system and impacting multiple products including CDN, security services, Workers KV, Turnstile, and Access. The team initially misdiagnosed it as a DDoS attack and ultimately fixed the issue by rolling back old files.