Following Google Cloud's recent widespread outage, which took sites like Spotify, Cloudflare and Discord offline, the company released its detailed report sharing exactly why it failed customers. The company says the root cause was a code issue in Service Control – part of the company's API management and policy checking system.

Google Cloud seems to be at the core of a major outage affecting popular internet apps and services on Thursday.

Multiple popular online services were disrupted Thursday due to ongoing issues at Google Cloud. Tens of thousands of users of Spotify, Discord and other platforms began noticing issues with their services early in the afternoon,

Google’s first public update to its status page came well after a message from Replit CEO Amjad Masad at 2:34PM ET, when he tweeted, “Google cloud is having an outage and that’s taking Replit down. We’re working with them to bring it back up ASAP.”

An outage at Cloudflare led to several leading applications, such as Google Cloud, Discord, Spotify, Twitch, Firebase, Cursor, etc. partially shutting down. This is a developing story.

On June 12, 2025, a major Google Cloud Platform (GCP) outage disrupted global digital services, exposing the fragility of cloud-dependent systems. The world didn’t go offline but it certainly stumbled.

Several Google services, like Search, Cloud, as well as, Spotify, and more, were hit with a massive outage today.

Multiple popular online services were hit by outages on Thursday afternoon, including Spotify, Discord and Google, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks service disruptions across the web.

A series of outages plagued various websites, services, and platforms throughout the week, ultimately affecting productivity for users around the globe.