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Ten days after the massive Google Cloud outage on June 12, 2025, the tech world is still buzzing about its impact. As programmers, we rely on cloud infrastructure for everything from hosting to CI/CD pipelines, and this incident exposed how fragile that dependency can be. Let’s break down what happened, how it affected developers, and what we can learn. 🚨 What Happened? At approximately 10:58 a.m. PDT / 1:58 p.m. EDT on June 12, 2025, Google Cloud experienced a widespread outage centered around its Identity and Access Management (IAM) system. This triggered a cascade of failures across multiple services, as reported on the Google Cloud Status Dashboard. The issue persisted for several hours, with partial recovery by 12:12 p.m. PDT and lingering issues in regions like us-central1. ...

Remember June 12, 2025? For many of us, it might just be another date. But for countless internet users and businesses, it was the day the digital world seemed to hold its breath. Discord went quiet, Google Cloud services flickered, Spotify playlists paused, and Twitch streams froze. It was a stark, almost unnerving, reminder of just how much we rely on the invisible threads of the internet – and how fragile they can sometimes be. ...

Today, a massive outage rippled across the internet, knocking out access to some of the world’s most used platforms. The root cause? A serious disruption within Google Cloud’s infrastructure, which triggered a chain reaction that impacted Cloudflare and countless dependent apps and services. 🚨 What Happened? At around 10:58 a.m. PDT / 1:58 p.m. EDT, Google Cloud began experiencing service-wide issues. By 11:46 a.m. PDT, reports began piling in across the tech world that everything from messaging apps to AI platforms had gone dark. ...