A series of outages plagued various websites, services, and platforms throughout the week, ultimately affecting productivity for users around the globe.

Spikes on the outage tracking site, Down Detector started peaking at the time. Affected Google services included Search, Meet and Nest as well as Workspace which handles many cloud based apps like Google Documents and Google Drive. Everything peaked with all of the various apps and services peaking above 10,000 reports on Down Detector.

Google reported that Google Cloud Platform (GCP), its popular cloud hosting service, experienced a problem Thursday afternoon.

Google Cloud experienced outages today that led to disruptions for many online services. Reports of issues for Google products and others began around 2 PM ET. The company was able to restore function to its own apps, but several other businesses have continued to experience problems for some users.

Google Cloud had a worldwide outage for several hours. Amid a recent string of recent outages among other technology platforms — such as ChatGPT — Google acknowledged its Cloud shutdown and provided an incident report on June 12, 2025. According to Google Cloud’s status site, the platform updated users at 12:41 PT, 3:41 ET on June 12.

Google says an API management issue is behind Thursday's massive Google Cloud outage, which disrupted or brought down its services and many other online platforms.

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Alphabet's Google Cloud was down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 11,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Google Cloud,