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> We saw traffic drop by about 50% across our network. Because of the architecture of our backbone this outage didn’t affect the entire Cloudflare network and was localized to certain geographies.

I'm not even sure.. Is that second sentence supposed to signal some sort of success? Dropping 50% of your traffic isn't isolated. If your gonna try to spin it, at least bury the damn lede. Further:

> The affected locations were San Jose, Dallas, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, DC, Richmond, Newark, Atlanta, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm, Moscow, St. Petersburg, São Paulo, Curitiba, and Porto Alegre. Other locations continued to operate normally.

Locations with THEIR equipment, but certainly not all "affected" locations. I live 4 hours from Dallas and can assure you that I was impacted. That coverage is like.. Most of the United States, Europe, Brazil and who knows how much of South America? Oh right, 50% of their traffic!



I read that as "It does not affect Asia". Which, while it's totally a wee hour, match what my monitor is telling me.


I appreciate the transparency of the 50% figure other than some generic spin “some connectivity was degraded”.




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