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On February 20, 2026, Cloudflare experienced a significant outage impacting 15% of its global network for 90 minutes due to a misconfigured rule in its Traffic Manager system. The outage, which began at 14:51 UTC, was caused by human error during a routine update that led to traffic withdrawal from multiple data centers.

The incident affected customers across various services, resulting in billions of failed HTTP requests, especially in Western and Central Europe. Cloudflare is implementing remediation measures to prevent future occurrences.