whats your chain of thought here ? a company that has nothing to do with azure is down because azure got ddosed 2 weeks ago ?

Maybe that any actor sophisticated enough to take down Azure might also target Cloudflare?

Especially when the next happens to be a major DDOS mitigator.

Maybe related to their scheduled maintenance? https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

I thought that as we're seeing issues with LON, but their Manchester POP is also down and that didn't have any maintenance this morning.

Ironically I can't even read the link in the article because cloudflare is down.

Linked Microsoft blog article mentions that DDoS was in October.