Cloudflare’s R2 Stumbles: A Comedy of Credential Errors and Outages
Cloudflare R2’s outage was triggered by a case of mistaken identity—credentials meant for development crashed the production party! A missing ‘–env production’ flag left services floundering with 100% write and 35% read failures. To prevent future slip-ups, Cloudflare’s deploying tools to avoid human errors, because credential chaos is no laughing matter!
Hot Take:
Looks like someone at Cloudflare forgot to take their “How to Not Deploy Credentials Like a Rookie” class. This latest R2 outage is a classic case of forgetting to dot your i’s and cross your t’s, or in this case, forgetting a teeny-tiny ‘–env production’ command. Who knew such a small oversight could cause such a big headache? But hey, at least no customer data was harmed in the making of this outage!
Key Points:
- Cloudflare’s R2 object storage had a 1 hour and 7 minutes outage due to a credential mishap.
- The incident caused 100% write and 35% read failures globally.
- Misconfiguration was due to a missing ‘–env production’ flag during credential rotation.
- No data loss occurred, but significant service degradation was noted.
- Cloudflare is enhancing its procedures to prevent future mishaps.