Technology Google Cloud and Cloudflare hit by widespread service outages

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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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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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