A Google Cloud outage has impacted several users across the globe, with its services being down for several hours. Impacted services include YouTube, Gmail, Google Cloud, Google, Google Meet, and Google Nest. While the Alphabet owned company has not stated the reason for the Google Cloud outage, it has acknowledged the issue stating: “Following a disruption to a number of Google Cloud services, all products have now been fully restored.”
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Apart from Google, users have stated that a number of services have been impacted. These services include AWS, Cloudflare, Claude, Twitch, Discord, CharacterAI, Etsy, Khan Academy, Google Drive, Google Maps, Pokemon TCG, Dialpad, Mailchimp, HighLevel, Amazon Web Services, OpenAI, Cloudflare, Anthropic, Breezeline, Dragon Ball, State Farm, Embark Studios, Gmail, Rocket League, DoorDash, Wells Fargo, Marvel, MLB TV, Google Gemini, Fortnite, Spotify, Shopify, Snapchat, Tekken, Box, Equifax, Roll20, Cursor, Looker Studio, FuboTV, IKEA, reCAPTCHA, GitLab, Steam, Clover POS Systems, AMC Theatres, NPM.
Cloudflare has acknowledged a major service disruption, impacting services like Access, WARP, and Workers AI. Many affected platforms rely on Cloudflare for connectivity and security, explaining the widespread impact. “Multiple Cloudflare services, including Workers KV, Access, WARP and the Cloudflare dashboard, experienced an outage for up to 2 hours and 28 minutes earlier today,” said Cloudflare.
“This was a serious outage, and we understand that organizations and institutions that are large and small depend on us to protect and/or run their websites, applications, zero trust and network infrastructure. Again we are deeply sorry for the impact and are working diligently to improve our service resiliency,” added the organisation on the outage. The cause of this outage, according to Cloudflare, was due to a failure in the underlying storage infrastructure used by Workers KV service, which is a critical dependency for many Cloudflare products and relied upon for configuration, authentication and asset delivery across the affected services. Part of this infrastructure is backed by a third-party cloud provider, which experienced an outage today and directly impacted availability of the KV service.
“We’re deeply sorry for this outage: this was a failure on our part, and while the proximate cause (or trigger) for this outage was a third-party vendor failure, we are ultimately responsible for our chosen dependencies and how we choose to architect around them. This was not the result of an attack or other security event. No data was lost as a result of this incident. Cloudflare Magic Transit and Magic WAN, DNS, cache, proxy, WAF and related services were not directly impacted by this incident,” added the organisation.
That said, the outages at AWS and Google Cloud, hint at a possible broader systemic issue, such as a shared dependency failure. Official AWS and Google Cloud status pages lack clear confirmation, therefore the full scope remains uncertain.
