🌐 Google Cloud Outage on June 12, 2025: A Programmer’s Post-Mortem
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. ...