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Cloudflare Experiences Six-Hour Global Service Outage on February 20, 2026
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On February 20, 2026, Cloudflare suffered a six-hour global service outage affecting customers using its Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) services. The outage began at 17:48 UTC when customer BGP routes were unintentionally withdrawn from the Internet, making several services and applications unreachable. The incident was attributed to a change in Cloudflare's network management of IP addresses and was not linked to any cyberattack.
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2026-02-20
Cloudflare outage begins at 17:48 UTC
2026-02-20
Cloudflare outage lasts for six hours and seven minutes
2026-02-21
Cloudflare confirms outage was not due to malicious activity
2026-02-22
Cloudflare reports on the outage and its causes
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