"Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare on Friday said it was investigating an outage that took place in the morning that brought down several global websites including LinkedIn, Zoom and others, the second such crash to affect the company in less than three weeks.Cloudflare said the issue had been resolved, and that it was was "investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs," or application programming interface that allow software systems to communicate with each other."
"The company said the outage was not due to an attack. A change to how its firewall handles requests "caused Cloudflare's network to be unavailable for several minutes this morning," the company said.Users on social media platform X also reported problems accessing the website.Edinburgh airport had to shut down briefly on Friday morning. But the airport later said the outage was a localized issue that was not related to Cloudflare."
Cloudflare experienced a morning outage that disrupted several global websites, including LinkedIn and Zoom, marking the second such crash in under three weeks. The outage was resolved after a brief period while engineers investigated issues with the Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs. The company attributed the outage to a change in how its firewall handled requests, which caused the network to be unavailable for several minutes, and said the outage was not due to an attack. Social media users reported access problems on platform X. Edinburgh airport briefly shut down but later said its issue was localized and unrelated to Cloudflare. Recent major cloud outages have affected Microsoft Azure and Amazon.
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