Starting earlier this week, a number of well-known online sites experienced massive outage, including Spotify, Snapchat, and Google services. Tens of thousands of users worldwide experienced outage reports at their height.
The problems were caused by a Google Cloud outage that affected services that depend on its infrastructure and spread throughout the internet, according to Downdetector.
One of the biggest cloud service providers in the world, Google Cloud, is where the outage started. A representative subsequently verified that the problem had been fixed by Thursday night, saying:
“All products have now been fully restored following a disruption to several Google Cloud services.”
A key-value data storage service called Cloudflare Workers KV was impacted by the downtime, according to Cloudflare, which acknowledged the cause and uses Google Cloud for several of its services. They did stress, though, that Cloudflare’s key systems were unaffected.
When the outage was at its worst:
- There were reports from more than 46,000 people on Spotify.
- 11,000 users of Discord experienced issues.
- More than 14,000 people complained about problems with Google Cloud.
Character.ai, Snapchat and Spotify, three more platforms that depend on cloud-based infrastructures, were also affected by massive outage. When queried about the issue, Spotify referred users to Google’s service dashboard.
Despite being flagged on Downdetector as well, Amazon Web Services (AWS) claimed to be functioning fine.
According to Synergy Research Group, Google Cloud is the third-largest cloud provider, after Amazon (30%) and Microsoft (21%), and accounts for an estimated 25% of all internet traffic worldwide.
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