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a fiber cut at 14:37 utc on june 22 knocked cloudflare-dependent services offline simultaneously, including x, zoom, microsoft teams, reddit, aws, square, and canva, briefly disrupting what cloudflare estimated as half of internet traffic. the incident is structurally notable not because of the cut itself but because a single upstream physical failure propagated through so many nominally independent services at once, revealing the degree to which internet service diversity has collapsed into a small number of shared backbone dependencies.

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