Tech Desk 
Jun 14, 2025
Several popular online platforms, including Spotify, Discord, and Google services, faced massive disruptions this week due to a Google Cloud outage.
The sudden crash left tens of thousands of users unable to connect to their online services and apps.
Google Cloud outage
Google Cloud is an important platform that provides the backend infrastructure to various online services. Google Cloud provides storage, data and computing capabilities to power apps, websites, and platforms. When there is an outage at this level, it has far-reaching effects across the internet.
According to Downdetector, outages were reported earlier in the week when Spotify users reported their apps would not play music, Discord was locking users out of chats, and Google services were not working.
Disruption reports climbed quickly from users, reaching a peak of more than 46,000 for Spotify, 11,000 for Discord and over 14,000 for Google Cloud itself.
Cloudflare, a company that helps sites stay online and secure, said one of its products, Cloudflare Workers KV (a data storage product), was affected by the outage in Google Cloud.
Nevertheless, Cloudflare is tracking that its core systems were unaffected.
Several other popular platforms, including Snapchat and Character.ai, also experienced outages, demonstrating how much businesses depend on cloud infrastructure.
Spotify told users the issue was linked to Google’s servers and pointed them to Google’s dashboard for updates.
By Thursday evening, Google confirmed that the problem had been fixed, and all services were back to normal. AWS (Amazon Web Services), another cloud giant, was also flagged briefly, but the company said it had no issues on its end.
Google Cloud currently handles about 25% of the world’s internet traffic, making this a major incident in the tech space.
