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MAJOR DATA CENTER POWER FAILURE (AGAIN): CLOUDFLARE CODE ORANGE TESTED

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Cloudflare experienced a major power failure at a critical data center for the second time in five months, providing a real-world test of the resilience improvements initiated following the first incident. Code Orange, a company-wide initiative to prioritize reliability, led teams across Cloudflare to make their systems more resilient. The most recent outage resulted in significantly less downtime and impact on customer-facing services compared to the prior event.