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On January 22, 2026, Cloudflare experienced a route leak caused by a configuration error at its Miami data center, which misrouted BGP prefixes and affected both customers and external parties for 25 minutes. The incident, resulting from a policy change intended to manage announcements for a Bogotá data center, led to significant traffic congestion and the discarding of approximately 12Gbps of data. In response, Cloudflare plans to enhance its routing policy safeguards and detection mechanisms to prevent future occurrences.