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

The issues appear to be tied to problems with Google Cloud that affected server locations globally starting at about 1:51PM ET, and have now been largely resolved. Regarding a simultaneous outage report on Thursday from Cloudflare,

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.