Technology Google Cloud and Cloudflare hit by widespread service outages

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

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Google Cloud and Cloudflare are investigating ongoing outages impacting access to sites and various services across multiple regions.

Cloudflare first acknowledged these issues less than 30 minutes ago when it reported Access authentication failures and Cloudflare Zero Trust WARP connectivity issues.

"We are seeing a number of services suffer intermittent failures. We are continuing to investigate this and we will update this list as we assess the impact on a per-service level," it added in a subsequent update to its official status page.

Google now warns that multiple Workspace services are also affected by this massive outage:

"We're investigating reports of an issue with Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, Google Cloud Search, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Meet, Google Tasks, and Google Voice," the company says.

"Multiple Workspace products beginning on Thursday, at 2025-06-12 10:58 PDT may be experiencing service issues. Our engineers are currently investigating the issue. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption."

While not necessarily connected to these two ongoing incidents, hundreds of thousands of other Downdetector users also report access issues when trying to use and connect to many other online services and platforms, including Spotify, Discord, AWS, Snapchat, NPM, Firebase Studio, and more.

Google Cloud and Cloudflare hit by widespread service outages

Google Cloud and Cloudflare are investigating ongoing outages impacting access to sites and various services across multiple regions.

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[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Google links massive cloud outage to API management issue

Google says an API management issue is behind Thursday's massive Google Cloud outage, which disrupted or brought down its services and many other online platforms.

Google says the cloud outage started around 10:49 ET and ended at 3:49 ET, after causing issues for millions of users worldwide for over three hours.

Besides Google Cloud, the incident also impacted Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, Google Cloud Search, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Meet, Google Tasks, Google Voice, Google Lens, Discover, and Voice Search.

However, it also caused widespread issues for third-party platforms that rely on Google Cloud, including but not limited to Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, NPM, Firebase Studio, and a limited number of Cloudflare services relying on the Workers KV key-value store.

"We are deeply sorry for the impact to all of our users and their customers that this service disruption/outage caused. Businesses large and small trust Google Cloud with your workloads and we will do better," Google said.

While it's still working on publishing a full incident report, Google revealed today the root cause of what caused an increased number of 503 errors in external API requests during yesterday's three-hour-long outage.

Google links massive cloud outage to API management issue

Google says an API management issue is behind Thursday's massive Google Cloud outage, which disrupted or brought down its services and many other online platforms.

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[Parkinsond]

Another outage of Cloudflare a while ago.

 

[harlan4096]

I got the same issues here... in my case Cloudflare (Madrid).

 

[Captain Awesome]

I got the same issues here... in my case Cloudflare (Madrid).

Same here in India..

 

[Trident]

Yeah. Cloudflare outages are not unheard of but Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Firebase, all of them experienced outages recently…

 

[Jonny Quest]

Cloudflare issue on my phone (Chicago) and my laptop (Minneapolis). Finally able to load this site.

 

[Trident]

Cloudflare issue on my phone (Chicago) and my laptop (Minneapolis). Finally able to load this site.

My website was down as well...

 

[RoxasDev]

My website was down as well...

I'm thinking that it's a good thing I didn't get Cloudflare yet.

 

[Sorrento]

Needed to contact my dentist due to a raging toothache their entire system was off & they couldn't even use the phone or appointments system until 20 mins ago - Eventually got through to them. Such is our reliance on tech, so salt water, oil of cloves you name it

Edit: poor me

 

[Jonny Quest]

Just hit again here for about 10 minutes.

 

[RoxasDev]

Needed to contact my dentist due to a raging toothache their entire system was off & they couldn't even use the phone or appointments system until 20 mins ago - Eventually got through to them. Such is our reliance on tech, so salt water, oil of cloves you name it

Edit: poor me

Cloudflare it’s a major part of the Internet’s infrastructure.
When Cloudflare has a large-scale routing or congestion issue, it affects:

• DNS resolution
• CDN delivery
• BGP routes used by ISPs
• shared backbone links with AWS, Google, Microsoft, etc.

So even services that don’t run on Cloudflare can become unreachable simply because the path to reach them goes through Cloudflare-controlled routes or shared peering points.

That’s why today we saw banks, ISPs, cloud providers, gaming platforms, and social networks all failing at the same time.

If Cloudflare’s global routing shakes, the Internet shakes with it.

 

[Trident]

Cloudflare it’s a major part of the Internet’s infrastructure.
When Cloudflare has a large-scale routing or congestion issue, it affects:

• DNS resolution
• CDN delivery
• BGP routes used by ISPs
• shared backbone links with AWS, Google, Microsoft, etc.

So even services that don’t run on Cloudflare can become unreachable simply because the path to reach them goes through Cloudflare-controlled routes or shared peering points.

That’s why today we saw banks, ISPs, cloud providers, gaming platforms, and social networks all failing at the same time.

If Cloudflare’s global routing shakes, the Internet shakes with it.

In the recent years Cloudflare expanded their offerings immensely, so they now offer databases, workers, workers KV and so on and so forth. Developers can build an entire platform from Cloudflare bits and bobs (which don't feel disparate, they all connect well together). A cloudflare outage will affect apps and services one would never expect to be affected.

 

[Jonny Quest]

Cloudflare it’s a major part of the Internet’s infrastructure.
When Cloudflare has a large-scale routing or congestion issue, it affects:

• DNS resolution
• CDN delivery
• BGP routes used by ISPs
• shared backbone links with AWS, Google, Microsoft, etc.

So even services that don’t run on Cloudflare can become unreachable simply because the path to reach them goes through Cloudflare-controlled routes or shared peering points.

That’s why today we saw banks, ISPs, cloud providers, gaming platforms, and social networks all failing at the same time.

If Cloudflare’s global routing shakes, the Internet shakes with it.

Does Cloudflare try to re-route traffic during times like this, as my laptop that had the previous Minneapolis error, in the last 10 minutes had a Toronto error?

 

[Shadowra]

They seem to be down every month...

I saw it this afternoon, my bank was down (I couldn't log in or withdraw money), and when I contacted them, they told me they were using Cloudflare...

 

[Sampei.Nihira]

I also had considerable problems this morning, obviously in Italy:

 

[rashmi]

Damn, I suddenly couldn't access MalwareTips and wondered if @Jack banned me for chatting too much with the @Bot—I just now ended my jokes with the @Bot!

 

[Bot]

Damn, I suddenly couldn't access MalwareTips and wondered if @Jack banned me for chatting too much with the @Bot—I just now ended my jokes with the @Bot!

Hi everyone,

It sounds like today's Cloudflare outage caused quite a bit of disruption worldwide—from site access issues to banks and even dental offices going offline. Sorry to hear about the toothache, @Sorrento—hope you're feeling better soon!

A Quick Note on Cloudflare Outages
Cloudflare powers a huge chunk of the internet's backbone, so when it hiccups, it can ripple out in unexpected ways. To answer the question about rerouting: Yes, Cloudflare does use dynamic routing (like BGP) to shift traffic around problems, which might explain why errors popped up from different locations like Minneapolis to Toronto. It's their way of trying to maintain connectivity, but during major incidents, it doesn't always fully mitigate the impact.

If you're still seeing issues:

• Check Cloudflare's official status page at cloudflarestatus.com for real-time updates.
• Try clearing your browser cache or using a VPN to test if it's a local routing problem.
• For persistent site-specific troubles, reaching out to the site's support (or posting in our forums) can help.

These events remind us how interconnected everything is—stay safe online, folks! If anyone has more details or questions, feel free to share.

@rashmi, if this is related to your setup, let us know more details (without sharing sensitive info).

 

[Jonny Quest]

@Bot, thank you for the reply

To answer the question about rerouting: Yes, Cloudflare does use dynamic routing (like BGP) to shift traffic around problems, which might explain why errors popped up from different locations like Minneapolis to Toronto. It's their way of trying to maintain connectivity, but during major incidents, it doesn't always fully mitigate the impact.

 

[Bot]

@Bot, thank you for the reply

@Jonny Quest, you're very welcome! Glad that explanation helped clarify things.

If you run into any more Cloudflare-related hiccups or have questions about internet infrastructure in general, feel free to ask—I'm here to help without getting too technical unless needed. Stay connected!