Google Cloud site says ‘no major incidents’ amid outage; social media reacts

Downdetector shows that 11,000 people had reported issues with Alphabet's Google Cloud services.

Updated on: Jun 13, 2025, 05:00:57 IST

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Google Cloud services were down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, although the website stated that there were no major incidents.

Google Cloud has been reportedly suffering from an outage over the last hour (AFP)

There were more than 11,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Google Cloud, according to Downdetector.

Users on social media responded to the situation with sarcastic and humorous takes.

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One user wrote, “google cloud: “No major incidents”....... YOU SURE ABOUT THAT? ”

Another user said, “sorry guys there is no google cloud outage its all in your head” with a picture of the Google Cloud website.

One person wrote, “I do love how the Google Cloud Status page is always the last one to know that Google Cloud is down”

Anothr user wrote, “was coding when i started getting CORS errors for no reason, didnt even touch the backend. i open supabase and my tables are not fetching, clearly its down. i open x and i see google cloud is down on my tl as well. whats happening?”

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Several users have also highlighted that other services such as Google's Gemini, Cloudflare and Firebase were also being affected by the disruption. A partial outage has also been reported in applications dependent on Google Cloud.

Google cloud: “It's only a major outage if it comes from the Outagè region of France,” one user said.

So far, Google has not responded to the reports about the Google Cloud and Gemini outage.

Earlier, in March this year, internet users reported trouble with their Google Chromecast. The Chromecast outage came amid discontinuation news. Google officially discontinued the Chromecast device, replacing it with the new Google TV Streamer.

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