Cloudflare faced a brief but widespread outage on Friday, disrupting several online platforms that rely on the company's network infrastructure. Trading platforms -- including Zerodha, Angel One and Groww -- reported login difficulties, delays in order placement and intermittent access to market data as their backend systems struggled to connect. Advertisement

The disruption occurred during market hours, leading to temporary interruptions in trading activity and a spike in user complaints on social media. Services have since been restored across the affected broking platforms.

However, the impact extended far beyond financial services. Popular platforms such as Claude, Perplexity, MakeMyTrip and multiple global websites that use Cloudflare for content delivery, DNS and security also exp

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