New Delhi, Dec. 5 -- Cloudflare was hit by yet another outage on Friday, 5 December, causing widespread disruptions across major websites and online services worldwide - the second such disruption the company has faced in the past few months.

The company, which powers large parts of the internet's infrastructure, confirmed that parts of its networks were impacted while it conducted planned maintenance work.

As per the official Cloudflare System Status page, the maintenance activity began at 09:00 UTC on 5 December, with the notice stating that scheduled maintenance was in progress and that updates would follow as required.

The outage hit several major Indian brokerages, including Zerodha, Groww, Angle One and Upstox, because all these ...