Massive Outages Hit Google Cloud and Cloudflare, Disrupting Services Worldwide

The outages began around 10:51 a.m. PDT on June 12. Downdetector has logged tens of thousands of reports, and other platforms like Spotify, Discord, and AWS also experienced access issues, though a direct link hasn’t been confirmed.



A massive internet outage on June 12, 2025, disrupted services worldwide as Google Cloud and Cloudflare experienced widespread technical issues, affecting thousands of users across multiple regions. The Google Cloud outage began at 10:51 a.m. PDT, causing interruptions across a range of its core services including Bigtable, Vertex AI, Cloud IAM, Console, Cloud Storage, Dataproc, Cloud Shell, and Cloud Workstations.

Simultaneously, Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure provider, reported severe problems with products such as Access, Zero Trust WARP, Workers AI, Durable Objects, Realtime, KV, Stream, AI Gateway, and parts of the Cloudflare dashboard. The company cited authentication failures and connectivity issues and confirmed that several of its services were experiencing intermittent failures.

The dual disruptions triggered a domino effect across the web, with Downdetector logging tens of thousands of outage reports. Users of other popular platforms, including Spotify, Discord, AWS, and Firebase, also reported access issues, though no confirmed link has been established between these services and the outages at Google Cloud or Cloudflare.

While both Google and Cloudflare are still investigating the root causes, the June 2025 internet outage highlights the vulnerability of digital infrastructure, especially when issues affect leading cloud service providers that power large portions of the internet.

These service interruptions have raised concerns among businesses and users relying heavily on cloud platforms for critical operations. Industry experts stress the need for robust multi-cloud strategies and disaster recovery plans to mitigate the impact of such massive outages worldwide in the future.