Until it was resolved, a Google Cloud outage that lasted for many hours on June 12 impacted globally well-known online platforms like Spotify, Discord, Google, AWS, Snapchat, and others.
Impact on Third-Party Apps and Google Services
Google's own ecosystem was not immune to the outage; services like Gmail, Google Search, Maps, and Nest were all affected, with some experiencing slowdowns or outages. Additionally, there were brief outages for third-party apps like Character.ai and the Pokemon Trading Card Game that depend on Google's infrastructure.
Google confirmed that engineers had identified the problem and were working on a solution by posting updates to its Cloud Status Dashboard at 12:41 PM PT and again at 1:16 PM PT. Despite advancements, performance in some areas remained poor, particularly in the US-central1 zone.