Cloudflare R2 service outage caused by password rotation error
Cloudflare reported that a one-hour and seven-minute outage that affected its R2 object storage and related services resulted in 100% write failures and 35% read failures worldwide.
A scalable object storage solution that works with S3, Cloudflare R2 offers multi-region replication, free data retrieval, and close Cloudflare integration.
According to reports, a credential rotation resulted in the R2 Gateway (API frontend) losing authentication access to the backend storage during the incident, which lasted from 21:38 to 22:45 UTC.
In particular, the production service was left without valid credentials after the old credentials were removed and fresh credentials were inadvertently delivered to a development environment rather than production read more about Cloudflare R2 service o...