A series of outages plagued various websites, services, and platforms throughout the week, ultimately affecting productivity for users around the globe.

Google Cloud experienced outages today that led to disruptions for many online services. Reports of issues for Google products and others began around 2 PM ET. The company was able to restore function to its own apps, but several other businesses have continued to experience problems for some users.

Google says an API management issue is behind Thursday's massive Google Cloud outage, which disrupted or brought down its services and many other online platforms.

Google Cloud had a worldwide outage for several hours. Amid a recent string of recent outages among other technology platforms — such as ChatGPT — Google acknowledged its Cloud shutdown and provided an incident report on June 12, 2025. According to Google Cloud’s status site, the platform updated users at 12:41 PT, 3:41 ET on June 12.

Google Cloud, Cloudflare experience issues amid outages at Spotify, Discord and other third-party apps and services.

Alphabet's Google Cloud was down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 11,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Google Cloud,

The new AI Cloud Takeoff programme targets 300 digitally mature companies with technical support, funding, and AI Centres of Excellence.