At around 2:30 p.m. EST on June 12, users around the world began reporting widespread outages affecting many popular internet platforms. Among the affected services were Google (including Google Cloud, Gmail, Google Meet), Discord, Spotify, Twitch, character.ai, Nintendo Switch Online, and dozens of others.
According to Down Detector, some services began to recover after about an hour of the incident, but access errors continued to occur in many places. Reports from users on social network X showed that the disruption occurred simultaneously and had a clear impact on daily activities, especially during working hours.
A series of platform "collapses" causing chaos in the internet community.
One of the reasons for this widespread problem may be related to key network infrastructure platforms such as Cloudflare and Google Cloud. Specifically, Cloudflare - a company specializing in providing CDN and internet security services - announced on its website about "widespread Cloudflare service outages". In the latest update, the company said it was recording signs of recovery, but there were still intermittent errors due to the system having to reprocess requests and fill up the cache.
Meanwhile, on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) status page, the announcement clearly states: "Multiple GCP products are experiencing service issues." This information reinforces the suspicion that this incident is not simply an interruption from individual services, but also comes from a large-scale platform infrastructure.
Services were unavailable for over an hour.
Below is a list of platforms that have recorded a large number of error reports from users on Down Detector as of 2:35 a.m. on June 13, Vietnam time: Discord, Google (including Google Cloud, Gmail, Google Meet and other services), Spotify, Twitch, character.ai, Rocket League, Cloudflare, Etsy, Pokémon Trading Card Game, Snapchat, fuboTV, Anthropic (developer of chatbot Claude), Shopify, Gemini, MLB.tv, Doordash, kea, Equifax, Marvel, Vimeo, Nintendo Switch Online, Gitlan, Calendly...
Experts say that when platform services like Google Cloud, Cloudflare or Shopify have problems, it will cause a chain effect to a series of applications and websites that depend on them. This explains why users on a large scale are affected at the same time.
Notably, it was initially reported that Amazon Web Services (AWS) was also affected by the incident. However, according to an official response from an AWS representative sent to Mashable, there are currently no issues with their service.
The incident continues to attract great attention from the technology community and internet users around the world. Related service providers are still in the process of investigating the cause and dealing with the consequences. This is an incident of rare scale, showing the increasing dependence of the digital ecosystem on a few key infrastructure providers.
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