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Widespread Outages Affect Major Online Services Due to Google Cloud Issues

A significant outage at Google Cloud caused disruptions for popular services like Spotify, Discord, and Google, impacting users globally on Thursday afternoon.

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  • Multiple online services, including Spotify, Discord, and Google, experienced outages affecting tens of thousands of users on Thursday afternoon.
  • The disruptions were linked to ongoing problems at Google Cloud, which began investigations at 11:46 a.m. PT.
  • Reports of Spotify outages peaked around 3 p.m. EST, with some users regaining access as the situation evolved.
  • The service disruptions impacted users across various regions, including the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
  • Cloudflare also faced issues, contributing to the widespread outages of popular internet services.

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Thousands of users experienced widespread issues with various platforms such as Spotify, Discord, Google, Etsy, Snapchat, and UPS.

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Google Cloud services experienced widespread outages across multiple regions, prompting an investigation that began at 11:46 a.m. PT.

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"…Google’s Cloud status page said an incident with their systems affected clients in the U.S. and abroad."

Massive Google Cloud outage disrupts popular internet services
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"…An outage disrupted service for dozens of websites and apps on Thursday, June 12."

Internet outages reported across Google Cloud, Spotify, more
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"…Typically, service disruptions of this nature are resolved in a matter of hours."

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The outage was caused by an issue with Google Cloud Platform's identity and access management service, which disrupted multiple Google Cloud products and services that depend on it.

The outage affected major services including Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, Twitch, and Google itself, impacting tens of thousands of users worldwide across various regions such as the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Google identified the root cause and applied mitigations, reporting signs of recovery within an hour in some locations, but some areas like us-central1 still experienced disruption. Companies like OpenAI also acknowledged related issues impacting their services and were working on mitigation.

Yes, the outage also affected Cloudflare, which experienced disruptions in a limited number of its services that rely on Google Cloud, contributing to the widespread impact on popular internet services.

Users in the United States, Europe, and Asia were notably affected by the service disruptions during the Google Cloud outage.

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