Cloudflare's infrastructure has faced repeated disruptions from internal configuration errors and software bugs in core systems like Bot Management and Web Application Firewall rules, most notably during the November 2025 global outage that halted core traffic for hours and the December 2025 incident lasting about 25 minutes. Follow-on events in January and February 2026 involved route leaks and BGP issues affecting subsets of customers. Minor elevated error rates and localized hardware problems persisted into June 2026, underscoring challenges in validating updates across its expansive network. These patterns of self-inflicted failures, despite post-incident reviews and mitigation efforts, shape trader assessments of recurrence risks amid ongoing operational scaling and feature deployments.