BREAKING — Google Cloud, Cloudflare and others saw outages striking site access and various services in many regions on Thursday. The disruption was significant, but in a few hours, companies reported that they had identified the root cause and services were coming back online.
As the outage began, the Down Detector website showed significant outages reported at major internet services, including AWS, Anthropic, Gemini and many consumer services like DoorDash, Equifax, Spotify and others.
Company system update pages also began reporting interruptions. “We are seeing a number of services suffer intermittent failures,” Cloudflare said in an update to its official status page. “We are continuing to investigate this, and we will update this list as we assess the impact on a per-service level.”
Impacted Cloudflare services included Access, WARP, Durable Objects (SQLite-backed Durable Objects only), Workers KV, Realtime, Workers AI, Stream, Waiting Room, some Cloudflare Dashboard items, AI Gateway and AutoRag.
All of the services listed rely on Cloudflare’s Workers KV, which “went offline due to an outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency,” Cloudflare reported on its status page. Workers KV is a global key-value storage service.
Google Cloud also published an incident report that listed multiple Google Cloud Platform services were impacted, including Bigtable, Console, Dataproc, Storage, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Memorystore, Cloud Shell, Cloud Workstations, Identity Platform, Memorystore for Memcached, Memorystore for Redis Cluster, Vertex AI Search, and Identity and Access Management.
A couple of hours later, it reported that it “identified the root cause and applied appropriate mitigations” and all but one region had recovered.
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Shane Snider, a veteran journalist with more than 20 years of experience, covers IT infrastructure at Informa TechTarget.
