Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure company, announced on Friday that it was looking into an outage that occurred in the morning, impacting various global websites like LinkedIn and Zoom. This incident marked the second crash within a short span of less than three weeks for the company.
Cloudflare confirmed that the issue had been resolved and mentioned that they were investigating problems related to the Cloudflare Dashboard and associated APIs used for software system communication. The company clarified that the outage was not a result of a malicious attack. Instead, a modification in how its firewall managed requests led to the unavailability of Cloudflare’s network for a few minutes that morning.
Users also faced difficulties accessing the website during this period. In a previous incident in November, a Cloudflare outage affected users of various services, including ChatGPT and the online game “League of Legends,” along with the New Jersey Transit system.
Microsoft, in a separate event last month, had to address an outage in its Azure cloud portal that caused disruptions for users trying to access services like Office 365 and Minecraft. The tech giant attributed this outage to a configuration change in its Azure infrastructure.
Similarly, Amazon encountered a significant outage in its cloud computing service in October.
