Google Cloud was identified by a Cloudflare representative as the cause of a massive outage that disrupted services across the internet Thursday. The widespread internet outage affected a variety of popular platforms, with users reporting problems accessing Google services, Cloudflare, Spotify, Twitch, and Discord.

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

Big G said it was fixed, but acknowledged ongoing customer pain Google Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.… Google published its first status update 11:46 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) when it reported over 40 of its locations and 26 services were “experiencing impact due to Identity and Access Management Service Issue.

UPDATE: Jun. 12, 2025, 5:06 p.m. EDT According to the Cloudflare status page, the service issues have been fully resolved. "All Cloudflare services have been restored and are now fully operational," the company wrote. "We are moving the incident to Monitoring while we watch platform metrics to confirm sustained stability."