As enterprise investments in digital transformation continue to accelerate, the Internet is becoming increasingly mission-critical to worker productivity and business continuity. Cloud and SaaS consumption have increased reliance on Internet-related infrastructures so significantly that the Internet (and cloud provider networks) have essentially become the new enterprise backbone. Yet, the Internet…
On Friday, July 17th, at approximately 2:15PM PDT, Cloudflare’s DNS services—which are much broader in scope than most realize—had a significant disruption that impacted approximately half of their infrastructure. The incident resolved less than 30 minutes later, but while ongoing, it caused a massive impact on Internet users, not only…
For enterprises and consumers around the world, the Internet has never been more important. Last week, we held our inaugural State of the Internet virtual summit, which brought together experts and leaders in Internet and application delivery to discuss topics related to the health and future of the Internet. Covering…
From the minds that brought you “The Internet Report,” the State of the Internet is a virtual summit that unites experts and leaders in Internet and application delivery as they dive into topics related to the health and future of the Internet. This inaugural summit, happening on July 16, will…
On this week’s episode of the Internet Report, I’m joined by my colleague, Michael Batchelder (aka Binky), to discuss a DNS-related service disruption that affected users trying to access Amazon.com. We also talk about a recently discovered DNS vulnerability that could leave DNS providers susceptible to DNS amplification DDoS attacks.…