{"id":64391,"date":"2025-06-13T18:05:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T18:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=64391"},"modified":"2025-06-13T18:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T18:05:55","slug":"internet-outages-hit-spotify-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=64391","title":{"rendered":"“Internet Outages Hit Spotify, Google”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Service provider Cloudflare experienced an outage on Thursday, along with services like Spotify, Discord and more. Jaque Silva\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Thursday afternoon, multiple major online platforms, including Spotify, Discord, and Google, experienced widespread outages due to a service disruption involving Google Cloud. Downdetector, a website that monitors real-time service interruptions, reported thousands of user issues across various platforms during the peak of the incident.<\/p>\n

At its height, the outages affected an estimated 46,000 Spotify users, 14,000 Google Cloud users, and 11,000 Discord users. Other impacted services included Snapchat and Character.ai, according to Downdetector.<\/p>\n

Cloudflare,<\/a> a key internet services provider, acknowledged disruptions but clarified that its core services remained stable. A representative told CNN that a third-party issue\u2014specifically with Google Cloud\u2014was responsible for the brief outages affecting parts of Cloudflare\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a Google Cloud outage,\u201d the spokesperson stated. \u201cA limited number of Cloudflare services that rely on Google Cloud were impacted. We expect them to return shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cloudflare\u2019s system dashboard also reported that its Workers KV, a cloud-based data storage service, had gone offline due to the third-party disruption.<\/p>\n

By late Thursday, Google Cloud confirmed it had resolved the issue. \u201cFollowing a disruption to a number of Google Cloud services, all products have now been fully restored,\u201d a spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n

As services began to recover, outage reports on Downdetector showed a significant decline. Spotify directed inquiries to Google\u2019s Cloud status dashboard, affirming that their own systems were indirectly affected.<\/p>\n

This incident highlights Google Cloud\u2019s integral role in powering much of the modern web. According to Google, it delivers 25% of global internet traffic. While smaller than cloud competitors Amazon Web Services (30% market share) and Microsoft Azure (21%), Google Cloud still accounts for a significant 12% of the cloud infrastructure market, according to Synergy Research Group.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time a cloud services outage has had a ripple effect across the internet. A 2021 Amazon Web Services disruption impacted everything from food deliveries to smart home systems. Similarly, a Cloudflare<\/a> outage in 2020 caused numerous high-traffic websites to go offline.<\/p>\n

Recent weeks have seen a spike in high-profile outages, including disruptions to ChatGPT and the platform X (formerly Twitter). Thursday\u2019s incident underscores how interconnected major services are\u2014and how a single point of failure in cloud infrastructure can disrupt global access in minutes.<\/p>\n

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