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> Cloudflare’s critical Workers KV service went offline due to an outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency.

So they depend on GCP for (some of) their services

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If that is true, and there is no other BGP shenanigans, then I suspect this dependency will not be around for long

My WAG is it comprises 95% of the company infrastructure

I heard that it was a "mandatory dependency" to mitigate "insider risk" or something. There's no way it's going anywhere. Odds are they'll just enforce even slower rollouts "to catch things early".

WAG = wild-assed guess?

Maybe beastman82 is wagging his tail?

ceo just said not for long

From the article:

> Workers KV is in the process of being transitioned to significantly more resilient infrastructure for its central store: regrettably, we had a gap in coverage which was exposed during this incident.

Sub-processor pages are an easy way to verify that sort of thing.

https://www.cloudflare.com/gdpr/subprocessors/cloudflare-ser...

wrote a similar comment - good to know for the future.

> So they depend on GCP for (some of) their services

Google denies they had any outages.

https://x.com/Google/status/1933246051512644069

https://nitter.net/Google/status/1933246051512644069

They can say that, but any one of their customers knows it's not true.

Is this the ol' "100% down for 3% of your customers" scenario?

Weaseling out of SLA/SLO payments.

Come on, linking four hour old tweets instead of their actual service dashboard where they clearly state there was an outage.

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1S...

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