Google Cloud and Cloudflare Suffers Massive Widespread Outages

Two of the internet’s most critical infrastructure providers experienced significant service outages yesterday, disrupting millions of users worldwide as both Cloudflare and Google services suffered widespread failures within hours of each other. Cloudflare’s extensive service disruption began at approximately 18:19 UTC when the company’s Zero Trust Access authentication system and WARP connectivity service started experiencing […] The post Google Cloud and Cloudflare Suffers Massive Widespread Outages appeared first on Cyber Security News.

Jun 13, 2025 - 06:30

Google Cloud and Cloudflare Suffers Massive Widespread Outages

Two of the internet’s most critical infrastructure providers experienced significant service outages yesterday, disrupting millions of users worldwide as both Cloudflare and Google services suffered widespread failures within hours of each other.

Cloudflare’s extensive service disruption began at approximately 18:19 UTC when the company’s Zero Trust Access authentication system and WARP connectivity service started experiencing failures.

The outage quickly escalated, affecting a broad spectrum of Cloudflare’s offerings, including Workers KV, Browser Isolation, Durable Objects, Workers AI, Stream, and portions of the Cloudflare dashboard.

The company identified the root cause as a critical failure of the Workers KV service, which occurred due to an outage affecting a third-party service dependency. This cascading failure brought down multiple products that rely on the KV service for storing and disseminating information, including Turnstile, AI Gateway, AutoRAG, and Realtime services.

Cloudflare engineers deployed “all hands on deck” to address the crisis, acknowledging the deep impact the outage caused across their customer base.

The company began seeing service recovery around 19:12 UTC, with intermittent errors persisting as systems handled retried requests and rebuilt caches. Full restoration was achieved by 20:57 UTC, with the incident officially resolved at 21:31 UTC after a monitoring period to confirm sustained stability.

In a separate but concurrent incident, Google experienced its own major service disruption beginning at 17:58 UTC, affecting core Workspace applications including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, Google Meet, Google Drive, Google Cloud Search, Google Tasks, and Google Voice. The outage also impacted AppSheet, creating widespread productivity disruptions for businesses and individual users globally.

Google’s engineering teams worked through the evening to restore services progressively. 19:30 UTC resolved most product impacts, though Google Meet required additional attention.

The majority of affected services were fully operational by 19:48 PDT (12:48 PDT), with AppSheet services restored by 23:00 PDT (16:00 PDT).

The simultaneous nature of these outages highlighted the interconnected vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure. While both companies emphasized that the incidents were unrelated, the timing raised questions about the resilience of critical internet services that millions of organizations depend on daily.

Both providers will share detailed reports after they finish their internal investigations. These incidents remind us of the serious effects that can happen when key cloud services fail, especially when third-party dependencies lead to unexpected problems in otherwise strong systems.

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