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Cloudflare resolves morning outage that affected multiple global websites.

Issue caused by a firewall database change during maintenance, not a cyberattack.

This is the second Cloudflare outage in less than three weeks.

Experts warn outages may increase as cloud operations grow more complex.

Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare on Friday said it had restored services following 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 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 morn

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