Google has published an official apology and preliminary report on the massive Google Cloud outage that occurred on June 12, 2025, causing widespread unavailability of dozens of popular internet services worldwide.
G. Ostrov
June 12, 2025, became a black day for the global internet. A massive Google Cloud outage led to the unavailability of a huge number of popular services, including Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and many other platforms that millions of users worldwide depend on.
Scale of the Catastrophe
The incident began at 10:51 AM Pacific Time and quickly spread worldwide. According to DownDetector monitoring service data, at peak moment approximately 46,000 complaints about Spotify unavailability were registered, over 10,000 reports about Discord issues, and thousands of reports about other services.
Not only entertainment platforms were affected, but also critically important business services. Cloudflare, one of the largest CDN service providers, also faced problems due to its dependency on Google Cloud. This created a domino effect, affecting even more websites and applications.
Google's Official Response
Google quickly acknowledged the problem by publishing a message on their status page: "We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products." The company emphasized that their engineering team was actively working on investigation and troubleshooting.
In an official apology, Google stated: "We deeply apologize for the inconvenience this incident caused to our users and partners. We understand how critically important our services are for business and people's daily lives."
Impact on Various Sectors
The outage affected a wide range of services: from music streaming platforms to AI programming applications like Cursor and Replit. Many companies were forced to temporarily suspend their operations or switch to backup systems.
Startups and small companies that rely entirely on Google Cloud infrastructure were particularly affected. For them, such an outage meant not only revenue loss but also potential reputational risks.
Recovery and Lessons
Most services were restored within a few hours, but the incident highlighted the vulnerability of the modern internet, where one major provider's failure can paralyze half the network.
This case once again raised questions about the need to diversify cloud providers and create more outage-resistant architectures. Many companies have already announced plans to review their cloud service usage strategies.
Official Google Cloud website: https://cloud.google.com
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