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Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare on Friday said it was investigating an early morning outage that took down several global websites including LinkedIn and Zoom, the second such outage to hit the company in less than three weeks.
Cloudflare said the issue has been resolved and that the company is “investigating issues with the Cloudflare Dashboard and its associated APIs,” or application programming interfaces that allow software systems to communicate with each other.
The content delivery network company said the outage was not due to an attack. A change in the way the firewall processes requests “caused Cloudflare's network to be unavailable for several minutes this morning,” the company said.
X users also reported problems accessing the website.
In November, a Cloudflare outage affected users of everything from ChatGPT to online gaming. League of Legends to the New Jersey Transit System.
Last month, Microsoft had to implement a fix to fix a glitch in the Azure cloud portal that prevented users from accessing Office 365, Minecraft and other services. The technology company wrote on its Azure status page that a configuration change to its Azure infrastructure caused the outage.
Amazon also experienced a massive outage of its cloud computing service in October.
