Google Cloud Outages Disrupt Multiple Online Services
Overview of the Incident
Google Cloud faced significant outages today, impacting various online services and applications. The disruptions were first reported around 11 AM PT (2 PM ET), causing inconvenience for users across multiple platforms. While Google successfully restored functionality to its primary applications, several third-party businesses continue to encounter issues.
Google’s Response and Recovery Efforts
In a statement released at 4:16 PM ET, Google acknowledged the challenges and outlined their recovery efforts. The company stated, “We have identified the root cause and applied appropriate mitigations. Our infrastructure has recovered in all regions except us-central1." They also indicated that Google Cloud products dependent on the affected infrastructure were experiencing recovery in several locations. Google’s engineering team is actively addressing the ongoing issues for customers in us-central1 and multi-region/us but did not provide an estimated time of full recovery.
Services Affected
The outages have caused disruptions for a host of prominent services including Spotify, Discord, Amazon Web Services, Snapchat, Etsy, UPS, and OpenAI. Reports of service interruptions were also noted for both the Pokémon Trading Card Game and Pokémon Go. Snapchat confirmed the technical difficulties on its support page, while OpenAI indicated that users may encounter login issues due to "issues affecting multiple external internet providers."
Current Status of Services
As of the latest updates, many services are gradually returning to normal operations. Availability on Spotify has improved, showing a decline in outage reports on DownDetector back to regular levels. Other platforms such as Snapchat and Discord also appear to be functioning more reliably. By 5 PM ET, Google reported that its services were being restored across various regions and projected complete recovery within the next hour.
Conclusion
This story is still developing as Google continues to work on resolving the remaining issues. Users are advised to stay updated through official channels for the latest information on service recovery.
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