OVHcloud experienced a brief but significant outage on October 30, 2024, which affected their backbone infrastructure and caused traffic to drop significantly. The outage was attributed to an issue in a network configuration mistakenly pushed by one of OVHcloud's peering partners, resulting in a BGP route leak that overwhelmed the network or its peer's network with traffic. An investigation revealed that Worldstream, one of OVHcloud's peers, experienced a similar issue due to a configuration error on one of its core routers, causing routes to be inadvertently advertised to all peers and leading to congestion on some paths. The incident highlights the importance of setting max prefix-limits for peers to prevent BGP route leaks and adopting measures such as Autonomous System Provider Authorization and Resource Public Key Infrastructure to protect networks from similar incidents in the future.