Massive June 12, 2025 internet outage: What we know so far

A massive outage hit several internet services on Thursday, including AWS, Cloudflare, Google, Twitch, and dozens more platforms.

Jun 12, 2025 - 23:10

Massive June 12, 2025 internet outage: What we know so far

A series of app icons for various Google services on a phone screen

On Thursday afternoon, a massive list of popular internet services all started experiencing outages at the same time.

Thousands of confused internet users took to Google and social media to ask why they couldn't log into their favorite websites and apps. The front page of Down Detector was a menagerie of spiking orange line graphs, starting around 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, June 12. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.)

Here's what we know so far.

What's causing the service outage?

At the time of writing, it's unclear what the cause of this outage is, though both CloudFlare and Google Cloud have reported problems. Cloudflare's status page is reporting broad service interruptions.

According to the most recent updates from the company:

"We are starting to see services recover. We still expect to see intermittent errors across the impacted services as systems handle retried and caches are filled."
"We are seeing a number of services suffer intermittent failures. We are continuing to investigate this and we will update this list as we assess the impact on a per-service level."
Cloudflare engineering is investigating an issue causing Access authentication to fail. Cloudflare Zero Trust WARP connectivity is also impacted.

And at the Google Cloud status page, the company reported earlier today that "Multiple GCP products are experiencing Service issues." The most recent update states: "We have identified the root cause and applied appropriate mitigations. Our infrastructure has recovered in all regions except us-central1. Google Cloud products that rely on the affected infrastructure are seeing recovery in multiple locations. Our engineers are aware of the customers still experiencing issues on us-central1 and multi-region/us and are actively working on full recovery. We do not have an ETA for full recovery."

A representative for Google Cloud told Mashable via email, "We are currently investigating a service disruption to some Google Cloud services. Please view our public status dashboard for the latest updates.”

What does Down Detector say?

Down Detector, a platform where users can report errors, has received an avalanche of user reports, with Google Services, popular AI platforms, and e-commerce websites all affected. Social apps like Twitch, Nintendo Switch Online, and Discord all received a spike in error reports as well.

A Downdetector page showing outages for services like Twitch and Discord

Even more services. Credit: Screenshot: Downdetector

A downdetector page showing impacted services like AWS and Cloudflare

Some impacted services. Credit: Screenshot: Downdetector

A downdetector page showing impacted services like Gmail and State Farm

More services. Credit: Screenshot: Downdetector

Is Google down?

Down Detector users have reported problems to a variety of Google services, although Google Search and Gmail appear to be working for most users. Multiple Mashable reporters have also experienced problems accessing services such as Google Meet. Google Cloud is reporting issues, which would help explain why so many Google services are struggling.

As of 3:30 p.m. ET, Google Cloud said it doesn't have an ETA for "full recovery" yet.

What websites, apps, and platforms are affected?

As of 3:20 p.m. ET, dozens of popular platforms are down or experiencing issues. According to Down Detector, the following sites reported a surge in error messages.

Discord
Google and all related services (e.g. YouTube, Google Meet)
Spotify
Twitch
Character.ai
Rocket League
Cloudflare
Etsy
Pokemon Trading Card Game
Snapchat
fuboTV
Anthropic
Shopify
Gemini
MLB.tv
Doordash
Ikea
Equifax
Marvel
Vimeo
Nintendo Switch Online
Gitlab
Calendly
Bluesky
Grok
Fortnite
Apple Music
Netflix
Disney Plus
Prime Video

This story is developing...

UPDATE: Jun. 12, 2025, 4:30 p.m. EDT This story has been updated with additional details about the widespread internet service disruption. An earlier version of this story stated that Amazon Web Services (AWS) was impacted by the outages; however, an Amazon representative told Mashable this is not the case. An AWS spokesperson said, "Currently there are no board service issues with AWS."