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Google, AWS, Cloudflare Among Popular Services Hit By Widespread Outage 59

Posted by msmash from the outage-report dept.
Multiple popular services -- including Google, Google Cloud, AWS, Spotify, Discord, Cloudflare, Google Nest, Azure, Box and Shopify -- are experiencing at least a partial outage globally that began around 2:25pm ET Friday, according to user complaints with reports flooding in across social media and outage tracking sites. Cloudflare has confirmed ongoing issues that started within the past hour. It remains unclear what prompted the outage.

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Google, AWS, Cloudflare Among Popular Services Hit By Widespread Outage

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  • Why all of them? Seems Suspicious. (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward

    As a network engineer it's a very suspicious to me that every single one of these is having problems at the exact same time, because these are supposed to be on different networks as part of a distributed system that is resilient to a centralized failure.

    I think the NSA just admitted to everybody that there's a thing connected to all of them that is looking at all their traffic.

    • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Cloudflare is involved, which could affect a lot of things.

      • Cloudflare is involved, which could affect a lot of things.

        Yes, like the governing authority's MITM services are likely offline.

      • AWS doesnâ(TM)t use cloudflare, and Iâ(TM)m pretty sure google doesnâ(TM)t either.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by PPH ( 736903 )

          pretty sure google doesn't either.

          That may be so. But they are involved in some sort of unspeakable relationship. A few months ago, when Cloudflare was loading some garbage from a hacker site, Google published an article coming to their defense.

          P.S. Slashdot's mobile site is still pretty iffy (ClownFlare errors thrown). Had to switch to desktop site to post this

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by CEC-P ( 10248912 )
        Between them and AWS going down, I think I've isolated the likes cause. Got it down to about 50-50 actually.

    • Re:Why all of them? Seems Suspicious. (Score:5, Informative)

      by Burdell ( 228580 ) on Thursday June 12, 2025 @03:38PM (#65445593)

      It's not all of them. One thing that tends to happen with a major outage is everybody treats downdetector.com as the gospel truth. Then end users try to make their own reports, and don't even know what service they're trying to connect to (like reporting Netflix is down when they try to load Hulu). Then lazy news services just pick up downdetector results and publish stories, which are then picked up and copied by other news services.

      What's known: GCP (Google Cloud Platform, not to be confused with Google Actual Cloud Platform [youtu.be]) has experienced a major outage. It affected some Google services as well as a lot of customer services. CloudFlare had a significant outage at the same time, although it looks like mostly just that CF's systems got backed up and overloaded trying to talk to the GCP-hosted customers.

    • Re:Why all of them? Seems Suspicious. (Score:4, Interesting)

      by gardyloo ( 512791 ) on Thursday June 12, 2025 @04:02PM (#65445653)

      It's also happening tomorrow, according to the summary. Hmmmmmmm...

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward
      As a network engineer why wouldn't you think: argh, BGP!?
  • There's been a suspicious amount of scraper traffic the last few days, someone somewhere is running a massive botnet.

  • Search: What day is it (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Thursday, June 12, 2025 Did we split timelines, again!?

    • Thursday, June 12, 2025

      Did we split timelines, again!?

      Nope; just pre-empting tomorrow's internet carnage. Today's mess is something else.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by ukoda ( 537183 )
      Depends on where you are. It is the 13th June 2025 here and at the time of your post it was so in many countries. Remember the USA is behind most countries.

      To be fair the post does say ET, which I would assume to be the east coast of the USA. Maybe the post was from someone in a different time zone from ET, so accidentally used their local date mixed the time at the location of the issue?

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by Entrope ( 68843 )

        No. I'm visiting Australia right now, and AEST is only 7 AM right now. When this story was posted, it wasn't 2 PM Friday anywhere in the world.

        • Re: (Score:3)

          by ukoda ( 537183 )
          The Slashdot post is shown, here, as "Posted by msmash on Friday June 13, 2025 @07:04AM from the outage-report dept" but to your point I would agree the text in that post "outage globally that began around 2:25pm ET Friday" can't be correct. My guess is the "2:25pm ET" part came from an upstream source and the "Friday" was added later by someone in a different timezone.

  • GCP (Score:1)

    by bads ( 141215 )

    Root cause GCP?

    https://status.cloud.google.co... [google.com]

  • BGP routing updates have taken down huge chunks of the Internet in the past, though I think most major network providers have good BGP update filters in place to prevent a recurrence of the same exact type as has happened a few times in the past.

    Nonetheless, it's amazing how much such a distributed, global system can rely on some common underpinnings.

    Maybe global over-reliance on common CDN, security platforms, and/or anti-DDOS technology that is being attacked (or affected unintentionally) is causing some

  • The AWS health dashboard shows no issues -- https://health.aws.amazon.com/... [amazon.com]

    However my Cloudflare dashboard is completely in accessible and there's a lot of red going on at https://www.cloudflarestatus.c... [cloudflarestatus.com]

    But with Cloudflare, that's not unusual... their core DNS and caching services seem unaffected, however.

  • Internet-wide planned outage (Score:4, Funny)

    by almitydave ( 2452422 ) on Thursday June 12, 2025 @03:52PM (#65445627)

    Each cloud service should have a couple of days per year on which they shut down for 24 hours so everyone can practice their contingency plans.

  • Is this a joke? (Score:4, Informative)

    by Murdoch5 ( 1563847 ) on Thursday June 12, 2025 @03:54PM (#65445635) Homepage
    I have Azure services all over the world, no one has complained, and Azure shows no outage or health event. I mean, if no clients complained, how widespread could it be? Maybe it was very brief, so we all missed it, BUT, it would explain why ProtonMail disconnected my external account around 2:30pm EDT.

  • Cloudflare update (Score:4, Informative)

    by Joe_Dragon ( 2206452 ) on Thursday June 12, 2025 @04:08PM (#65445663)

    Update - Cloudflare’s critical Workers KV service went offline due to an outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency. As a result, certain Cloudflare products that rely on KV service to store and disseminate information are unavailable including:

  • AWS was not showing issues at the time all these others were on downdetector.com. None of the 3 AWS regions I use in the US have had issues and there are no notifications in the AWS support center, either. So update your headline. AWS is not involved. It's a CloudFlare and GCP issue. Maybe not Azure either. Those could be CloudFlare issues looking like Azure issues.

  • So this is happening tomorrow?

    began around 2:25pm ET Friday

  • Clowns! Clowns striking again!

  • That must be the cause since it's scheduled for today.
    Wagons full of packets are waiting.

  • Everything was fine on my end. Heh.

  • I love that this was reported tomorrow. theres a mindbender for ye

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