• On November 18, 2025, Cloudflareâs network experienced significant failures to deliver network traffic for approximately two hours and ten minutes. • Nearly three weeks later, on December 5, 2025, our network again failed to serve traffic for 28% of applications behind our network for about 25 minutes. • We published detailed post-mortem blog posts following both incidents, but we know that we have more to do to earn back your trust. • Today we are sharing details about the work underway at Cloudflare to prevent outages like these from happening again. • We are calling the plan âCode Orange: Fail Smallâ, which reflects our goal of making our network more resilient to errors or mistakes that could lead to a major outage. • A âCode Orangeâ means the work on this project is prioritized above all else.

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  • On November 18, 2025, Cloudflareâs network experienced significant failures to deliver network traffic for approximately two hours and ten minutes. Nearly three weeks later, on December 5, 2025, our network again failed to serve traffic for 28% of applications behind our network for about 25 minutes. We published detailed post-mortem blog posts following both incidents, but we know that we have more to do to earn back your trust. Today we are sharing details about the work underway at Cloudflare to prevent outages like these from happening again. We are calling the plan âCode Orange: Fail Smal
  • Cloudflare announced its “Code Orange: Fail Small” resilience plan after two major outages in November and December 2025 that disrupted traffic for hours and minutes, respectively. The company will prioritize the project above all other work, enabling cross‑functional teams to focus on preventing future incidents. Key actions include enforcing controlled rollouts for configuration changes, rigorously testing failure modes of all traffic‑handling systems, and revising internal “break‑glass” procedures to eliminate circular dependencies. Cloudflare expects incremental improvements to increase network resilience, aiming to restore customer trust and reduce the likelihood of similar global outages.

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