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Category Outage
How one computer file accidentally took down 20% of the internet yesterday – in plain English
Yesterday’s outage showed how dependent the modern web is on a handful of core infrastructure providers. In fact, it’s so dependent that a single c...
Nov, 19, 2025
6 min read
by CryptoSlate
The internet is still broken: A centralized bottleneck caused the global internet blackout today
A Cloudflare outage today disrupted access to services across the internet, exposing the significant amount of traffic that runs through Cloudflare...
Nov, 18, 2025
6 min read
by CryptoSlate
Cloudflare Global Outage Spreads to Crypto; Multiple Front Ends Down
A widespread Cloudflare outage disrupted major parts of the internet on Tuesday, knocking many crypto platforms offline.
Nov, 18, 2025
by CoinDesk
If Web3 is decentralized, why do DeFi dApps still break when the cloud goes down?
On Oct. 20, a hiccup in Amazon’s US-EAST-1 region set off a chain reaction across the crypto industry. Coinbase reported degraded service, Infura a...
Oct, 31, 2025
5 min read
by CryptoSlate
How today’s AWS glitch took down Coinbase, ETH L2s, and half the internet
When Amazon Web Services (AWS) faltered this morning, much of the internet went dark, and crypto was no exception. Several major blockchains and tr...
Oct, 20, 2025
3 min read
by CryptoSlate