Archive · 13 Jun 2025
Google Resolves Global Outage That Affected Spotify, Discord
Imagine Google's cloud is like a massive library storing all sorts of digital books and services.
Suddenly, the library had a temporary power outage, causing several services, like music (Spotify) and chat apps (Discord), to stop working.
The problem was fixed, and the library is back up and running.
Google is now looking into what caused the outage.
Google resolved a global service disruption affecting multiple platforms.
Services like Spotify, Discord, and Gmail were impacted by the outage.
The outage began around 1:50 p.m. ET and was reported by users.
Google stated the issue was resolved for affected users.
An internal investigation will be published by Google.
- Who
- Users of Spotify, Discord, Gmail, Google Chat, and other affected services.
- What
- A brief global service disruption affecting various Google platforms and dependent services.
- When
- Thursday, June 12, 2025, beginning around 1:50 p.m. ET.
- Where
- Globally, impacting users of Google services and dependent platforms.
- Why
- The root cause is under internal investigation by Google.
- Affected Services
- Spotify, Discord, Gmail, Google Chat, Google Meet, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Cloud Search, Google Tasks, and Google Voice
- Start Time
- Around 1:50 p.m. ET
- Reports
- 14,729 reports of Google Cloud being down in the U.S. around 2:32 p.m. ET
- Resolution Status
- Issue resolved for all affected users.
Sources
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