Internet infrastructure is overwhelmed, expert says after Cloudflare outage

An outage at internet security and performance company Cloudflare had a disruptive domino effect worldwide on Tuesday in the latest demonstration of how reliant the internet is on just a handful of networks.
In a social media post, Cloudflare chief technology officer Dane Knecht said the outage was triggered by "a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability" that crashed after a "routine configuration."
"That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack," Knecht said.
Just last month, Amazon's cloud computing arm AWS experienced a software issue, triggering an outage that impacted platforms and websites like Coinbase, Signal, Lyft and the Associated Press. One of the largest information technology outages occurred last year when a faulty CrowdStrike update caused Microsoft Windows systems to crash.
Taylar Rajic, an associate fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Strategic Technologies Program, said these systems are simply overwhelmed and failing to keep up with the burst of demand in recent years.
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