Today, June 12, 2025, Google announced that a global disruption affecting key services—including Gmail, Meet, Drive, Cloud Search, and Tasks—has been fully resolved. The incident, which began at approximately 1:50 p.m. ET, triggered over 14,700 outage reports on Downdetector for Google Cloud and sent ripple effects through platforms relying on its infrastructure, such as Spotify and Discord. By early evening, engineering teams had restored all services, with only minimal residual glitches reported past 6:18 p.m. ET. Google plans to publish a detailed post-mortem once its internal investigation concludes.
Google Overcomes Widespread Cloud Outage in Under Five Hours
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