Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be. Two well established cloud services, Cloudflare and Azure Front Door, both had simultaneous outages that caused major global havoc. Major platforms like LinkedIn, Zoom, Canva, DoorDash, and even crypto exchanges such as Coinbase and Kraken were knocked offline due to these inital outages. Even more recently Cloudflare had a secondary outage early Friday morning, December 5th, 2025.
The cause of the inital outages? Configuration changes. Not malicious actors attempting to deliver cyberattacks, but instead it came from within each organization. It is a testament to how system updates or even human error can cascade into a massive global downtime event.
Due to these outages, organizations potentially lost millions of dollars due to lost transcations, decreased productivity as well as an untold impact to customer trust.
What do you do?
The question isn’t if outages will happen again — it’s when. That’s why Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting (DCAC) is hosting a webinar on how to mitigate downtime from outages like these.
In this session, myself along with Denny Cherry & Joey D’Antoni will walk through:
- What really happened during the outages
- Why organizations depend on Azure Front Door & Cloudflare
- Proven strategies to architect your web tier for resilience—even when the front‑end proxy goes dark
Make sure to join us!!
December 10th 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET – Registration is Open!
Don’t wait until the next outage leaves your business offline. Register now for the DCAC webinar and learn how to build resilience into your cloud infrastructure. Your customers expect reliability — and with the right planning, you can deliver it even when the internet’s biggest players falter. DCAC can help you get there.
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