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Engadget
2 days ago
- Business
- Engadget
Google Cloud outages: Spotify, Discord, Snapchat and more were down for hours
Google Cloud experienced outages today that led to disruptions for many online services. Reports of issues for Google products and others began around 2 PM ET. The company was able to restore function to its own apps, but several other businesses have continued to experience problems for some users. In an update at 4:16PM ET, Google said, "We have identified the root cause and applied appropriate mitigations. Our infrastructure has recovered in all regions except us-central1. Google Cloud products that rely on the affected infrastructure are seeing recovery in multiple locations. Our engineers are aware of the customers still experiencing issues on us-central1 and multi-region/us and are actively working on full recovery. We do not have an ETA for full recovery." Screenshot from DownDetector at about 3:25PM ET Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, Etsy, UPS and OpenAI all experienced a high volume of reports on DownDetector, with some informing users of disruptions. Even the Pokemon Trading Card Game and Pokemon Go weren't spared issues. Snapchat acknowledged the ongoing issues on its support page. OpenAI has posted that users may have trouble logging in due to "issues affecting multiple external internet providers." AWS also experienced a higher-than-usual volume of reports on DownDetector during the outage, but Amazon clarified in a statement to Engadget that it has no broad service issues and noted that its AWS Health Dashboard is a better indicator of its current status than DownDetector. Almost all services have now returned to normal operation. By 5PM ET, Spotify's main page loaded for our editors and reports of outages on DownDetector had fallen back to close to their baseline. Other platforms like Snapchat and Discord also seemed to be functioning normally for us. Google said at the time that its products were coming back online across multiple regions and that it expected the recovery to be complete "in less than an hour." However, as of 7:13PM ET, the company noted that several Google Cloud components were still experiencing "residual impact." Google Cloud Dataflow, Vertex AI Online Prediction and Personalized Service Health are all still somewhat affected, and the company has not provided a timeline for when everything will be back to normal.
Tom's Guide
2 days ago
- Business
- Tom's Guide
Google Cloud is down — latest on Google outage impacting 50+ services
2025-06-12T20:15:59.586Z Earlier today, AWS, another provided like Cloudflare, saw a big spike of outage reports on Down Detector. My understanding is that many companies like Discord, which is showing issues, use multiple providers as a sort of redundancy, which may have been behind the spike for AWS. An AWS spokesperson reached out to Tom's Guide saying that Down Detector does not accurately reflect AWS issues. 'Currently there are no broad service issues with AWS. Our services are operating normally. The only resource on the internet that provides accurate data on the availability of our services is the AWS Health Dashboard," the AWS spokesperson said. 2025-06-12T20:03:42.146Z Google response A Google spokesperson responded to our inquiries, but did not provide any information on what might have caused problems today. Instead they pointed back toward the status page. 'We are currently investigating a service disruption to some Google Cloud services. Please view our public status dashboard for the latest updates," a Google Cloud spokesperson told us. 2025-06-12T19:52:55.167Z Current status According to the Google Cloud status page the company's engineers have "identified the root cause and applied appropriate mitigations." It adds that some people might still experiences some problems on an individual level. However, there is no ETA for full recovery. As for Nest, we're still waiting on an update. The last one was at 11:37 a.m. Pacific and the site claims another would come 60 minutes later. 2025-06-12T19:34:56.661Z Back up, mostly It looks Google may have solved whatever was plaguing its services. The Google Cloud status page now says that "All locations except us-central1 have fully recovered. us-central1 is mostly recovered." The update does say that there is no ETA for full recovery of the central region which is listed as Iowa. Over on the Google Workspace status page, it now says that every product except Google Meet has been recovered. No word on when Meet will come back. 2025-06-12T19:29:03.329Z Spotify With multiple services down, we're also tracking a Spotify outage that is currently ongoing. Follow along for updates here. 2025-06-12T19:22:58.153Z Spike Downturn? Over on Down Detector, every thing seems to be slowing down as the spikes are starting to decrease and crawl back down the mountain. Based on what've seen in some of the status pages, some places might be getting back online but it's clear that problems still abound. A few colleagues have reported that Google Drive won't let them upload or download documents or images right now. We're not out of the woods yet but some people might have more access than they did previously. 2025-06-12T19:16:08.277Z More Google Cloud sections down, no ETA on fix The Google cloud status page just got redder as more parts of the service are having problems. These include Memorystore, Vertex AI Search, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Shell, Cloud Workstations, Google Cloud Console and Google Cloud Bigtable. A report on the page says that engineers are "continuing to mitigate the issue." It says that there is recovery in some places but there is no ETA on a "full mitigation at this point." 2025-06-12T19:09:40.055Z Google investigating On the Google Workplace status page, a new report has gone up. Google says it is investigating an issue affecting: Gmail Google Calendar Google Chat Google Cloud Search Google Docs Google Drive Google Meet Google Tasks Google Voice The page adds that Google will provide more information "shortly." For now, it does not elucidate what might be causing problems. 2025-06-12T19:05:47.806Z Cloudflare also see reports Cloudflare another platform provider that undergird many sites and services on the internet is also showing spikes. The Cloudflare dashboard is showing a "broad" service outage. According to Cloudflare, the company is seeing "intermittent failures" that they are investigating. It's not clear yet what is causing these failures. 2025-06-12T18:59:45.552Z Google Cloud status update The Google Cloud status page just update showing global issues affecting the Cloud console, storage, Identity platform, Identity and Access Mnaagement, as well as data Dataproc. Drilling down by region, the page calls it an outage. The page has not provided a reason or if Google is investigating. Tom's Guide has reached out to Google for more information. 2025-06-12T18:51:49.564Z All of the affected Google services according to Down Detector Based on Down Detector reports, a number of Google services are experiencing issues. Here's what we see: Google Search Google Gemini Gmail YouTube Google Maps Google Drive Google Nest Google Meet Google Cloud A bit of YouTube Other services like Spotify, Discord, and Etsy, to name a few are also experiencing issues according to DD, though we don't know at the moment if those services run on Google platforms or another big provider like Amazon Web Services (AWS) which is also spiking right now. 2025-06-12T18:42:58.237Z Nest Status Page update The main Google status pages haven't changed but the Nest page just put up a new message. "We're currently experiencing an outage affecting Nest Home/App and other services. Our team is actively investigating the issue and working to restore full functionality as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause." Currently, it says that Setup & Pairing and Nest Apps are experiencing an outage, while Nest Cam Video History and Nest Cam Live Video are in a partial outage. The page promises another update in an hour. 2025-06-12T18:38:59.461Z Users claim no access Looking through comments on Down Detector, it appears that for many people reporting issues the whole system is down for them. "On multiple Google apps like Gboard traduction/voice to speech it says 'non internet,'" one comment reads. Tom's Guide uses some Google services and as of this writing we aren't seeing anything affecting our access to various Google accounts. However, for those are affected, it sounds like all access has been blocked. 2025-06-12T18:27:22.768Z Google status pages show no problems We checked several status pages for Google including the Search, Nest, Cloud and main Google sites. As of this writing, none are showing any issues with green status across the board. We'll monitor these pages to see if any changes occur and if they provide any information about what could be causing potential outages.
