Google Cloud Stumbled and Unplugged Internet
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Any major problems with providers like this will result in lots of your favorite online sites and apps going down. Down Detector on Thursday saw user-reported issues at Twitch, Gmail, Discord, Nintendo Switch Online, Spotify, and dozens more platforms. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.)
Google Cloud services were down and are affecting other sites, according to Replit and Cloudflare.
What you can do is work on distributing your workloads across multiple cloud providers, eg, multi-cloud or combine public and private clouds, aka hybrid clouds. This reduces your risk of relying on a single provider and allows for failover if one cloud experiences an outage.
UPDATE: June 13, 2025, 10:45 a.m ET — The massive internet outage that struck Thursday afternoon appeared to be fully resolved. Read more about the possible cause of the disruption. Google Cloud ...
A widespread outage Thursday afternoon affected multiple online services, including Google, Spotify, Discord, and more. Reports of service disruptions have flooded outage tracker DownDetector, with users experiencing login failures, loading issues, and app crashes.