I mean most of these companies diversify their hosting and scale it between providers like Azure, AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, etc.

Checking https://downdetector.com indicates that the outage was upstream from most of them - indicating there was a blip on a main data trunk.

Looking now for more details on where it was.

EDIT: Yes the outage affecting discord was because Cloudflare was disrupted. Why CloudFlare was disrupted should be a concern because the entire premise of CloudFlare is .... to not be disrupted.

https://dotesports.com/general/news/how-to-fix-discord-cloudflare-service-interruption-error

EDIT: From what I am seeing there is a weird Global Crossings issue happening in Brazil. My guess is a ton of internet traffic has been re-routed down there and is taking time to catch up.

https://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=BR&list=0&time=18344&view=map

I mean most of these companies diversify their hosting and scale it between providers like Azure, AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, etc.

Checking https://downdetector.com indicates that the outage was upstream from most of them - indicating there was a blip on a main data trunk.

Looking now for more details on where it was.

EDIT: Yes the outage affecting discord was because Cloudflare was disrupted. Why CloudFlare was disrupted should be a concern because the entire premise of CloudFlare is .... to not be disrupted.

https://dotesports.com/general/news/how-to-fix-discord-cloudflare-service-interruption-error