US EditionGoogle Cloud Stumbled and Unplugged the Internet: Here's How That Happened
- Multiple websites and services, including Google Cloud, Cloudflare, Spotify, and Discord, experienced widespread outages on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
- The outages began around 11 am PT due to a third-party vendor failure affecting identity and access management services globally, though no attack was involved.
- Affected services spanned numerous Google Cloud Platform products, such as API Gateway, speech-to-text, and storage, while Cloudflare reported intermittent failures and ongoing recovery efforts.
- Google had over 14,000 outage reports at peak and stated that engineers identified the root cause by 3:41 p.m. ET, but some users still faced disruptions in certain regions.
- The outage lasted nearly three hours with services restored afterward, underscoring risks of cloud dependency and prompting continued investigation and recovery by engineering teams.
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Paige GrossKansas Reflector A Google Cloud outage caused disruptions across the globe Thursday afternoon, affecting Google users and other companies like Spotify, Discord, Amazon Web… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary access Sign Up Now Close
Google's cloud service crashed, taking large parts of the internet with it.
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