Google Cloud Outage
What happened! Decoding the Google Cloud Outage of June 13, 2025 Yesterday's digital world felt a tremor. What started as intermittent glitches quickly cascaded into a widespread disruption, impacting everything from our morning Spotify playlists to critical business operations. The culprit? A significant Google Cloud outage that highlighted, once again, the interconnected fragility of our increasingly cloud-dependent lives. What Happened: A Global Ripple Effect On Thursday, June 12, 2025, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experienced a major incident that sent shockwaves across the internet. The outage, which began around 10:49 AM PDT (that's roughly 3:49 AM AEST for us here in Sydney on Friday morning), caused elevated 503 errors in external API requests across numerous Google Cloud and Google Workspace products. Google's initial analysis points to an invalid automated quota update to their API management system, which was unfortunately distributed globally. This seemingly m...
