Google Cloud has been pinpointed as the source of a major outage that disrupted internet services on Thursday, according to a representative from Cloudflare. The extensive outage impacted numerous popular platforms, with users experiencing difficulties accessing Google services, Cloudflare, Spotify, Twitch, and Discord. The disruption also affected cloud hosting services such as Cloudflare, which reported service issues on its status page. A Cloudflare spokesperson informed Mashable via email that Google Cloud was behind the internet service disruptions. “This is a Google Cloud outage,” the spokesperson remarked, noting that although some Cloudflare services utilizing Google Cloud were impacted, the primary Cloudflare services were not affected.

On the Google Cloud status page, the company initially indicated service issues with multiple GCP products beginning Thursday, 2025-06-12 at 10:51 PDT. By 3:41 p.m. ET, Google Cloud updated their status, stating that their engineers had pinpointed the root cause and implemented suitable mitigations. They mentioned that while most locations had seen recovery in the underlying dependency, except for us-central1, customers continued to face varying levels of impact on specific Google Cloud products. All engineering teams were diligently working toward service recovery, although no estimated time for full recovery was given.

Cloudflare’s status page indicated that its essential Workers KV service had gone offline due to an outage of a third-party service, which is a crucial dependency. As a result, certain Cloudflare products that rely on the KV service were unavailable. Mashable contacted Google for comments regarding the outages and will provide updates if they respond.

On Thursday afternoon, Down Detector recorded a surge in user error reports beginning around 2 p.m. ET. By 3:30 p.m., many of the impacted platforms had restored service, although some users still reported issues. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.)