Global Internet Meltdown: Spotify, Discord, and More Taken Down by Google Cloud Outage!

2025-06-13 18:00:33.058

Popular online services worldwide experienced disruptions on Thursday due to a significant issue with Google Cloud. Downdetector, an outage tracking website, showed a surge in reports from users of platforms such as Spotify and Discord experiencing service problems, beginning in the early afternoon. Spotify, in particular, saw a peak in outage reports around 3 p.m. EST before gradually subsiding as some users regained access. Google Cloud acknowledged the incident on its status page, confirming that the issue affected clients both domestically and internationally. The company reported that its engineers had identified and begun to address the root cause, and services were starting to recover. While Google Cloud stated that the root cause had been identified and mitigated, they didn't provide an estimated time for full resolution. Google Cloud, a rapidly growing segment of Alphabet Inc., generated $43.2 billion in revenue last year (a 31% increase from the previous year), highlighting its crucial role in the internet infrastructure.