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Early yesterday afternoon, millions of users in Spain and around the world were left without access to everyday services such as X, Canva, ChatGPT, Bet365, League of Legends, banking websites and even payment platforms. The reason? The global failure of Cloudflare, one of the companies that supports much of the internet infrastructure.

about four hoursThe web pages we use every day have stopped working.Show error messageor loading only half wayAnd although it seems that each companyThey "collapse on their own," but the truth is that they all depend on the same layer that stops responding.Moreover,It happened with AWS and Azure a few weeks ago.This confirms a worrying trend: services are increasingly essential.Too little dependent on service providers

To understand exactly what happened, why a mistake by a single company can destroy half of the Internet, and what a user can do when this happens, we spoke to two experts from Check Point Software: Gabriela Zornoza, cloud specialist and Eusebia Nieva, technical director for Spain and Portugal.Their explanations help us understand not only yesterday's crash, but also the fragility of the digital ecosystem in which we live.

The main question: why did everything suddenly collapse?

Gabriela Zornoza clearly points out: "Everything falls apart because Cloudflare offers a content distribution service, which is, so to speak, a service that brings websites closer to users. When this service fails, all customers using the service find that they cannot access any application or website."

Regarding the impact on everyday devices, he adds: "It does not affect the device itself, but if this device is connected to another server that was damaged by an accident or is hosted in an affected cloud, it may suffer from these problems. The device does not fail, but the connection does."

Expert tip: All you can do is wait

If you are in doubt as to how to handle this crash, Zarnoza says that the only solution is to wait for the compleder round for the browser to reach 0.

To determine whether the cause is in our device or if it is a global outage, it is better to check the connection with other services or contact other people and pay attention to local news.

Monopoly capacity: no 'plan b' in the cloud

"The current slowdown follows the same pattern seen in recent departures, in recent outages and recent blackouts," said Eurosius COSFS, the Securities and Exchange Commission's technical director for Spain and Portugal.These kits are very effective and present in all spheres of modern life and added that despite these incidents, their size reduces costs, facilitates access to safety equipment and offers even the smallest organization even previously impossible performance.

But he also warned of the dangers posed by this massive focus: "The downside is also clear: when the power supply platform, the public information page, but because of the single layer they rely on to respond."

Neva warned that this centralization also makes these platforms vulnerable targets for cybercriminals and at high risk in the event of a malicious attack: "If an incident of this magnitude were to be deliberately unleashed, the damage would spread to countries that rely on these platforms to communicate with the public and provide essential services."

The threat of cybercrime

Finally, Eusebio Nieve emphasizes the importance of diversity and seeks our real ambitions.He said that many organizations continue to work in the same way and do not have human benefits;The time of the house is impossible for the forest, there is no other system and one that can show itself in the end.It adds little though that the internet is maintained to be implemented in distribution, in the example that a large part of the world is organized in ways beyond a few clouds.

What has become very clear is that an event like the one that occurs has the power to know about centralized services and that a simple failure in one of these can affect millions of users and important services worldwide.