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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) t

> 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

reimertz 1y ago
wrote a similar comment - good to know for the future.
QuantumNoodle 1y ago
If that is true, and there is no other BGP shenanigans, then I suspect this dependency will not be around for long
- beastman82 1y ago
  My WAG is it comprises 95% of the company infrastructure
  - IX-103 1y ago
    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".
  - SahAssar 1y ago
    WAG = wild-assed guess?
    - tempaccount420 1y ago
      Maybe beastman82 is wagging his tail?
- pizzafeelsright 1y ago
  ceo just said not for long
- yencabulator 1y ago
  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.
asteroidburger 1y ago
Sub-processor pages are an easy way to verify that sort of thing. https://www.cloudflare.com/gdpr/subprocessors/cloudflare-services/ https://www.cloudflare.com/gdpr/subprocessors/cloudflare-ser...
voxadam 1y ago
> So they depend on GCP for (some of) their services Google denies they had any outages. https://x.com/Google/status/1933246051512644069 https://x.com/Google/status/1933246051512644069 https://nitter.net/Google/status/1933246051512644069 https://nitter.net/Google/status/1933246051512644069
- IX-103 1y ago
  They can say that, but any one of their customers knows it's not true.
  - hinkley 1y ago
    Is this the ol' "100% down for 3% of your customers" scenario?
- voytec 1y ago
  Weaseling out of SLA/SLO payments.
- mirashii 1y ago
  Come on, linking four hour old tweets instead of their actual service dashboard where they clearly state there was an outage.
- yencabulator 1y ago
  https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1SsW https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1S...

> 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

reimertz 1y ago

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

QuantumNoodle 1y ago

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

beastman82 1y ago
My WAG is it comprises 95% of the company infrastructure
- IX-103 1y ago
  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".
- SahAssar 1y ago
  WAG = wild-assed guess?
  - tempaccount420 1y ago
    Maybe beastman82 is wagging his tail?
pizzafeelsright 1y ago
ceo just said not for long
yencabulator 1y ago
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.

asteroidburger 1y ago

Sub-processor pages are an easy way to verify that sort of thing. https://www.cloudflare.com/gdpr/subprocessors/cloudflare-services/ https://www.cloudflare.com/gdpr/subprocessors/cloudflare-ser...

voxadam 1y ago

> So they depend on GCP for (some of) their services Google denies they had any outages. https://x.com/Google/status/1933246051512644069 https://x.com/Google/status/1933246051512644069 https://nitter.net/Google/status/1933246051512644069 https://nitter.net/Google/status/1933246051512644069

IX-103 1y ago
They can say that, but any one of their customers knows it's not true.
- hinkley 1y ago
  Is this the ol' "100% down for 3% of your customers" scenario?
voytec 1y ago
Weaseling out of SLA/SLO payments.
mirashii 1y ago
Come on, linking four hour old tweets instead of their actual service dashboard where they clearly state there was an outage.
yencabulator 1y ago
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1SsW https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1S...