Google Cloud Outage Disrupts Major Web Services Worldwide

Google Cloud services faltered late Thursday morning Pacific time, rippling through the internet as developers and consumers watched familiar apps grind to a halt. Status dashboards lit up red at 10:51 a.m. PT, citing problems across 13 products in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Downdetector logged more than 13,000 incident reports, and a spike in searches for “Firebase” confirmed just how many mobile and web apps rely on Google’s hosting backbone.

The glitch quickly cascaded beyond Google’s walls. Amazon’s Twitch, Cloudflare’s security network, Microsoft-owned GitHub, Replit’s coding sandbox, and Shopify’s e-commerce engine all reported intermittent failures. With content-delivery nodes and application back ends dropping packets, developers scrambled for work-arounds while Cloudflare warned of broader “intermittent service degradation.” Shares of Cloudflare slid about 6 percent as nervous investors digested the scope.

Google engineers said they were “actively investigating,” offering no cause or recovery timeline. Industry analysts noted that simultaneous hiccups at multiple cloud giants hint at an upstream networking issue rather than isolated vendor error. For now, businesses are reminded that the internet’s invisible plumbing still has single points of failure—and that redundancy plans matter when millions of users suddenly see 500-error screens instead of checkout carts.