--- title: Medium | daily.dev description: A post-mortem and threat model following the November 2025 Cloudflare outage, which took down an entire stack including the Cloudflare dashboard itself. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/medium-mnet7hexv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Medium | daily.dev og:description: A post-mortem and threat model following the November 2025 Cloudflare outage, which took down an entire stack including the Cloudflare dashboard itself. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/medium-mnet7hexv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MnET7hexv.png og:image:alt: Medium og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Medium **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A post-mortem and threat model following the November 2025 Cloudflare outage, which took down an entire stack including the Cloudflare dashboard itself. The author reframes availability as a security property and documents five concrete controls added in a six-week sprint: dual-provider authoritative DNS (Cloudflare + Route 53), a warm AWS CloudFront fallback, a direct-origin escape hatch with a publicly-trusted TLS cert, CDN-independent monitoring via UptimeRobot and Pingdom, and break-glass authentication outside Cloudflare Access. The post emphasizes that controls must be drilled — the first runbook drill took 40 minutes, but recovery now takes under four minutes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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