A wave of internet outages rippled across the globe Thursday as Google Cloud services experienced major disruptions, affecting a wide range of digital platforms and cloud-dependent applications used by businesses and consumers worldwide.
Beginning at 10:51 a.m. Pacific Time, users began reporting issues with multiple Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, as confirmed by the company’s official status page. Engineers are actively working to identify the root cause, but the scope of the disruption was significant. According to monitoring websites, more than 13,000 incident reports were logged within an hour, reflecting widespread problems in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Among the affected services were some of the world’s most relied-upon platforms. Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced disruptions, with Amazon-owned Twitch among the impacted services. Other platforms facing performance issues included CoreWeave’s Weights and Biases, Elastic, GitLab, LangChain, Microsoft’s GitHub, Replit, and Mailchimp, owned by Intuit.
Cloudflare, a central internet infrastructure and security company, also reported service degradation. The company stated it was observing intermittent failures across several services and was assessing the damage on a per-service basis. Cloudflare’s stock dropped approximately 6% during the trading day.
Google’s Firebase, a development toolset for mobile and web apps, saw a sharp uptick in search activity, suggesting that developers were seeking information and support amid the breakdown. Shopify, a major customer of Google Cloud, acknowledged service disruptions and noted that several of its internal systems were affected.
This multi-company outage highlighted the systemic risks posed by global reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure. As digital platforms continue to consolidate their operations around a few key providers, technical failures at any one of them can send shockwaves across the digital economy.
No official comment was immediately available from representatives of Google, Amazon, or Cloudflare. The situation remains under active investigation, and engineers are working to restore normal service.
