Incidentsby GlyphWorkers 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
187 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.