Google Cloud Outage Disrupts Major Platforms Worldwide

A significant outage affecting Google Cloud has led to disruptions for numerous online platforms globally. Services reliant on cloud availability experienced widespread outages, with prominent examples including Spotify, Discord, and various Google applications like Gmail, Google Workspace, impacting users worldwide. ^{1 2} The incident highlights the inherent vulnerability of centralized cloud infrastructures in the face of potential service disruptions. Although Google Cloud has since restored services, according to their status page, this outage underscores the dependency of modern online operations on these critical platforms.