Cloudflare Dashboard and API Outage on April 15, 2020

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This post details a significant outage of the Cloudflare Dashboard and API due to a physical disconnection of critical fiber optic cables during planned maintenance. It highlights the importance of robust internal data infrastructure and control plane availability, the challenges of disaster recovery and failback, and the need for improved documentation, labeling, and process design to prevent single points of failure in physical infrastructure.