Massive access outages occurred on multiple popular services including Twitch, Gmail, Discord, Nintendo Switch Online, and Spotify, and Cloudflare pointed out that Google Cloud was the cause
At around 14:30 local time on June 12, 2025, popular websites and applications such as Twitch, Gmail, Discord, Nintendo Switch Online, and Spotify experienced large-scale access outages. Some services have already been restored, but some services remain unavailable at the time of writing.
Google Cloud caused massive internet outage, Cloudflare says | Mashable
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Access issues occurred on various web services from around 14:30 on June 12, 2025 local time. Downdetector , which detects access issues on web services, reported that internet users were unable to access each service.
The following services have reported access issues:
・Discord
・Google (Google Cloud, Gmail, Google Meet, etc.)
・Spotify
・Twitch
・character.ai
・Rocket League
・Cloudflare
・Etsy
・Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket
・Snapchat
・fuboTV
・Anthropic
・Shopify
Gemini
・MLB.tv
・Doordash
・IKEA
Equifax
・Marvel
・Vimeo
・Nintendo Switch Online
・Gitlan
・Calendly
In addition, OpenAI reported that 'we are aware of issues affecting multiple external internet providers that are impacting the availability of our services, including single sign-on (SSO) and other login methods. Our engineering teams are working to mitigate these issues.'
We are aware of issues affecting multiple external internet providers, impacting the availability of our services such as single sign-on (SSO) and other log-in methods. Our engineering teams are working to mitigate these issues.
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) June 12, 2025
Thank you for your continued patience.
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Cloudflare, a hosting service, is also one of the services affected by the access failure. At 3:19 on June 13, 2025, Japan time, the company reported, 'Cloudflare's engineering team is investigating an issue where access authentication fails. Cloudflare Zero Trust WARP is also affected.' Later, at 3:30 on the same day, the company notified, 'Multiple services are experiencing intermittent failures. We are continuing to investigate and will update this list as soon as we evaluate the impact on service levels.' In addition, the affected services include 'Access,' 'WARP,' ' Browser Isolation ,' 'Browser Rendering,' 'Durable Objects (only SQLite-based Durable Objects),' 'Workers KV,' 'Realtime,' 'Workers AI,' 'Stream,' 'Part of the Cloudflare dashboard,' 'Turnstile,' 'AI Gateway,' and 'AutoRAG.' Cloudflare reported that the Workers KV failure 'went offline due to the outage of a third-party service that is a major dependency.' It was reported that all Cloudflare services were restored at 5:57 on the same day.
Cloudflare Status - Broad Cloudflare service outages
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/25r9t0vz99rp
Similarly, access issues were reported on the Google Cloud status page. The Google Cloud outage occurred at 3:51 a.m. on June 13, 2025, Japan time, and at 8:41 a.m. on the same day, the company reported, 'Our engineers have identified the root cause and applied appropriate mitigation measures. We have confirmed that the underlying dependencies have been restored in all locations except us-central1 , but we recognize that customers are still experiencing varying degrees of impact on individual Google Cloud products. All of our engineering teams are actively working to restore service. We do not have a timeline for when full service will be restored.' The company then reported at 9:05 a.m. on the same day that the issue had been fully resolved. Google Cloud lists Singapore and Belgium as areas affected by this outage at the time of writing, but Japan has also been listed among the previously affected areas.
Google Cloud Service Health
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1SsW
When Mashable contacted Cloudflare, a spokesperson for the company responded, 'This is a Google Cloud outage. Some Cloudflare services use Google Cloud and were affected. We expect to have the issue resolved shortly. Cloudflare's core services were not affected,' revealing that the large-scale outage was caused by Google Cloud.
Mashable has reached out to Google directly for comment on the outage, but has not received a response at the time of writing.
There were no access issues with Amazon's cloud service, Amazon Web Services.
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