Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

4 hours ago

Cloudflare experienced a service outage on February 20, 2026, affecting BYOIP customers due to a BGP route withdrawal.
The issue was caused by a configuration change in the BYOIP service, not by malicious activity.
Approximately 1,100 BYOIP prefixes were withdrawn, impacting 25% of BYOIP customers.
The outage lasted 6 hours and 7 minutes, with some customers able to self-remediate via the Cloudflare dashboard.
A software bug prevented some prefixes from being restored automatically, requiring manual intervention.
Services impacted included Core CDN, Spectrum, Dedicated Egress, and Magic Transit, causing connection timeouts and failures.
The incident was related to the Code Orange: Fail Small initiative, aimed at improving network resiliency.
Cloudflare plans to implement API schema standardization, better monitoring, and safer deployment processes to prevent future outages.

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