Cloudflare provides services for businesses to help their websites and applications operate. Photo: AP PHOTO

Cloudflare has fully restored its services after an outage at the web-infrastructure company prevented thousands from accessing major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT.

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The company said the outage that began about 10.30pm AEDT on Tuesday was caused by an automatically generated configuration file, designed to manage potential security threats.

The file grew too large and crashed the software system handling traffic for several Cloudflare services, the company, whos

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