What's funny about this outage is I'm sure many of of us (myself included) used this window to analyze large services and determine an increase in major Cloudflare customers and presumably, revenue. Even ISPs like T-Mobile faced issues due to the Cloudflare outage! The situation has exposed just how critical Cloudflare is.
I went ahead and bought calls ahead of NET earnings next month. Cloudflare is becoming an increasingly bigger part of the internet backbone. Purely speculating here, but I wouldn't put it past AWS or another large player acquiring them soon.
> an increase in major Cloudflare customers and presumably, revenue. Even ISPs like T-Mobile faced issues due to the Cloudflare outage!
Careful about this methodology. Some services at my org were impacted despite not being direct CloudFlare customers. They had external dependencies that used CloudFlare.
So it's much bigger proverbial 'blast-radius' lest something happen to CloudFlare? Can you elaborate a bit on that part? I'm interested in knowing more.
> I wouldn't put it past AWS or another large player acquiring them soon.
I really hope it doesn't come to this sadly. I'd be okay with DO or somebody who isn't as massive doing a merger. Maybe they can pull resources to make each other even successful and maintaining reasonable independence.
I went ahead and bought calls ahead of NET earnings next month. Cloudflare is becoming an increasingly bigger part of the internet backbone. Purely speculating here, but I wouldn't put it past AWS or another large player acquiring them soon.