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On June 12, 2025, Google Cloud suffered a major service outage that affected access to various popular internet sites, beginning around 11:46 a.m. Pacific Time, Google Cloud began reporting problems that quickly propagated out across the web. According to real-time outage tracker DownDetector, popular sites such as Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and AI services including Replit and Character.AI were down temporarily.
Cloudflare, a company that uses Google Cloud to provide some of its services, also announced service disruptions. A spokesperson of Cloudflare, however, specified that its operational infrastructure was not affected. The recovery started at approximately 12:12 p.m. PT, and Cloudflare, along with other services that were down, started regaining functionality. At 2:23 p.m. PT, Google posted that mitigations had been put in place and that the full recovery was anticipated within an hour.
Some of the companies that were affected by the outage provided statements in response. Spotify acknowledged that it was observing the condition through the official Google Cloud status posts. Cloudflare also confirmed the outage and stressed that a few of its services were affected. TechCrunch, which closely followed the outage, reported that the other largest cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, did not indicate any simultaneous problems.
An AWS spokesperson said there were no reported outages, and Microsoft had not published an official comment at the time of publishing this story. A spokesperson of Google Cloud, Devon Smiley, gave a confirmation that a team of engineers was investigating and working on recovery efforts throughout the day. Although the reasons behind the outage are not entirely revealed, the extent to which the services were impacted demonstrates how the internet infrastructure is interconnected.
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This outage occurred at the busiest time of the working day and left millions of users in the United States unable to work. AI development platforms such as Cursor and other cloud-dependent applications had slowdowns and outages. The outage shows the importance of the cloud infrastructure in daily digital operations and communications.
Such an event is most often solved within a couple of hours, and system redundancy and disaster recovery processes are involved. Even though Google and its affected partners responded quickly to get back to business, the event demonstrated the risks posed by concentration in cloud services and the importance of diversified infrastructure strategies.
