Workers KV storage failure cascades to Access, WARP and more
Jun 12, 17:52 UTCJun 12, 20:20 UTC
Duration
2h 28m
Impact
Critical
Root cause
Dependency
Cloudflare, 90 days
56 incidents
Affected
Workers KVWARPAccessGatewayTurnstileWorkers AIGlobal
Lesson: A shared internal primitive is a single point of failure for everything built on it; know which products have a hard dependency and give them a fallback.
What happened
A failure in the third-party storage infrastructure behind Workers KV took down many products that rely on KV for configuration, authentication and asset delivery. The outage lasted 2 hours and 28 minutes.
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Full history| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2500:03 UTC | Issues with Durable Objects | minor | Ongoing |
| Sep 2420:40 UTC | Intermittent 500 errors for backend services on Replicate | minor | 1h 54m |
| Sep 2417:33 UTC | Delays Starting Cloudflare Workers Builds | minor | 3h 19m |
| Sep 2417:26 UTC | Browser isolation session data sync issues | minor | 5h 11m |
| Sep 2415:20 UTC | Cloudflare Access updates delayed | minor | 3h 5m |
| Sep 2410:22 UTC | Customers using BYOIP can have issues updating their BGP prefixes, including advertising or withdrawing prefixes. | minor | 3m |
Also caused by third-party dependency
All| Started | Vendor | Incident | Impact | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1609:48 UTC |  DigitalOcean | Support Portal Service DisruptionDigitalOcean | minor | 11h 21m |
| Sep 417:03 UTC |  Grafana Labs | Degradation of Hosted Grafana in US Central RegionGrafana Labs | major | 3h 39m |
| Sep 416:05 UTC |  Expo | Elevated Linux worker queue timesExpo | major | 15h 4m |
| Sep 115:25 UTC | Grafana Labs | Investigating issues in US Central (prod-us-central-0, prod-us-central-5)Grafana Labs | minor | 4h 54m |
| Aug 3106:26 UTC |  Fly.io | Packet loss in ORDFly.io | minor | 1h 44m |
| Aug 2800:07 UTC |  Snowflake | INC20000150Snowflake | minor | Ongoing |
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