Cloudflare experienced an outage affecting 20% of webpages, including crypto platforms, due to a fault in its bot detection system. The company apologized for the impact and confirmed no cyberattack. Cloudflare handles 20% of internet traffic and powers one-third of the top 10,000 websites, apps, and services, causing widespread disruption.

The AWS and Cloudflare outages highlight the risks of centralized infrastructure, creating single points of failure. EthStorage emphasized the need for a completely decentralized web stack to prevent future outages. Vitalik Buterin authored a manifesto urging industry players to prioritize decentralization over adoption to maintain trustlessness in crypto platforms.

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