Cloudflare Crisis: A Recurring Internet Outage

Cloudflare experienced its second outage in three weeks, affecting major sites like LinkedIn and Zoom. The issue was linked to Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs. Edinburgh airport also faced an unrelated localized issue. Other tech companies, including Microsoft and Amazon, have faced recent similar outages.

On Friday, Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure company, investigated a morning outage impacting global websites like LinkedIn and Zoom. This marks the company's second crash in under three weeks.

While Cloudflare resolved the issue, citing problems with its Dashboard and APIs, social media users on platform X reported access issues. Edinburgh airport, despite shutting down briefly, clarified that its problem was localized and not related to Cloudflare.

In recent months, outages have plagued other tech giants. November saw a Cloudflare failure impacting services like ChatGPT and League of Legends, while Microsoft and Amazon faced their respective challenges in October.

(With inputs from agencies.)