A Global Incident Reveals the Risks of Relying on a Single Cloud Provider
Between June 12 and 13, 2025, a massive outage on Google Cloud Platform triggered a cascade of disruptions impacting major global digital services such as YouTube, Spotify, Twitch, Snapchat, and Discord. Critical Google tools—Gmail, Maps, Meet—were also severely affected, impacting both the general public and enterprises. The worldwide outage affected North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa, according to data from Google Cloud and the Downdetector website.
Cloudflare, a web ecosystem and security infrastructure provider (CDN, WAF, DNS, etc.), experienced cascading service disruptions. The company acknowledged malfunctions affecting essential components of its infrastructure but initially could not identify the root cause. It soon became clear that the primary source of failure was a critical fault within Google Cloud, on which Cloudflare heavily depends for its own operations.
This type of event highlights a structural issue : the excessive centralization of digital services on a handful of global cloud infrastructures, creating a domino effect across the Internet. When a trusted node like Google Cloud fails, entire segments of the digital economy become inoperative.
CloudFilt : A French, Distributed, and Sovereign Alternative to Cloudflare
Contrary to centralized approaches that weaken the digital ecosystem, CloudFilt positions itself as a credible alternative to Cloudflare by offering independent, resilient, and sovereign web cybersecurity.
Built on a multi-provider architecture and leveraging over 340 data centers worldwide, CloudFilt is founded on several differentiating pillars :
- Distributed and Interoperable Infrastructure
Unlike single-cloud solutions, CloudFilt intelligently distributes its critical components across a network of independent, interconnected partner data centers located in France, Europe, and internationally. These infrastructures are operated by multiple providers, mitigating risks associated with dependency on a single vendor.
Its sovereign CDN network, designed to optimize the delivery of static and dynamic content, inherently integrates advanced security functions. Unlike conventional CDNs that rely on a single cloud stack, CloudFilt uses intelligent routing control capable of automatically redirecting traffic to available nodes in the event of failure or overload.
This multi-provider approach enables effective fault tolerance, ensuring high availability through load balancing and automatic failover mechanisms between active zones, without service interruption or data loss. - Autonomous Behavioral Security Engine
At its technological core, CloudFilt relies on a proprietary behavioral analysis engine capable of detecting real-time threats such as intelligent bots, credential stuffing attacks, and anomalous API behaviors.
This engine operates on CloudFilt’s proprietary infrastructure, independent of any third-party service, ensuring fast and reliable decision-making. - Digital Sovereignty and Regulatory Compliance
CloudFilt also distinguishes itself through sovereign data governance, strictly compliant with GDPR. Sensitive processing can be confined exclusively to SecNumCloud-certified infrastructures, guaranteeing that neither data nor metadata leaves European territory.
This orientation makes CloudFilt especially suited for public sector entities, financial institutions, insurers, e-health providers, and e-commerce platforms intending to protect their users while complying with legal obligations.
An Architecture Designed to Endure
In the face of systemic incidents undermining Internet giants, CloudFilt offers a robust, distributed, and sovereign cybersecurity model. A solution engineered to guarantee business continuity, which provides active protection against advanced threats, while preserving the autonomy and compliance of European companies.
In an increasingly structurally unstable digital world, technological independence is no longer a choice but a strategic imperative.
