Google Cloud and Cloudflare outages disrupt Spotify, Vimeo, Snapchat, and FuboTV services across US

Spotify, Vimeo, Snapchat, FuboTV, UPS, Rocket League, Discord, Etsy and Character AI were down in US Thursday. Google Cloud and Cloudflare experienced outages.

Updated on: Jun 13, 2025, 04:53:19 IST

By Vaishnavi Vaidyanathan

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Spotify, Vimeo, Snapchat, FuboTV, UPS, Rocket League, Discord, Etsy, and Character AI experienced outages across the United States on Thursday afternoon. While the exact cause has not been confirmed, data from DownDetector shows that both Google Cloud and Cloudflare experienced disruptions. Since many of the affected platforms relied on one or both of these cloud providers, the outages are likely connected.

Google Cloud and Cloudflare experienced outages on Thursday. (Bloomberg)

Google Services Down

Several core Google services also experienced disruptions, including

Gmail

Google Calendar

Google Chat

Google Cloud Search

Google Docs

Google Drive

Google Meet

Google Tasks

Google Voice

A bit of YouTube

At 3:09 p.m., Google provided an update on its status page: "Our engineers are continuing to mitigate the issue and we have confirmation that the issue is recovered in some locations. We do not have an ETA on full mitigation at this point."

According to DownDetector, reports of issues with Google Cloud spiked around 2:00 p.m.

By 3:30 p.m., Google's Cloud Status page noted: "All locations except us-central1 have fully recovered. us-central1 is mostly recovered."

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

Cloudflare

Cloudflare, which provides infrastructure and hosting services for numerous websites and apps, reported Thursday afternoon: "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."

In a later update, the company added, "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."

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Some social media users falsely claimed that AWS was experiencing an outage. However, an AWS spokesperson confirmed there were no disruptions.

“Currently there are no broad service issues with AWS. Our services are operating normally. The only resource on the internet that provides accurate data on the availability of our services is the AWS Health Dashboard,” the spokesperson said in a statement.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vaishnavi Vaidyanathan
Vaishnavi Vaidyanathan leads the US Desk at Hindustan Times, where she writes, strategises coverage, and ensures quality across all beats. With eight years of experience covering US news for leading publications, she has reported extensively on politics, entertainment, and sports. Vaishnavi holds a graduate degree in English, Journalism, and Psychology, and completed her PG Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the Manorama School of Communication, where she was awarded the prestigious Mammen Mappillai Award for Best Outgoing Student. She began her career at the International Business Times (US Edition), covering US breaking news, politics, and entertainment. She later joined Opoyi, reporting across all beats, including US sports and trending stories. Prior to Hindustan Times, she served as World Lead at Times Now News, covering comprehensive world news and events. Vaishnavi has expertise in politics, entertainment, and breaking news, and enjoys tackling stories across a wide range of topics. Beyond the newsroom, she is an avid traveller, a foodie who loves exploring new restaurants, and a pop culture enthusiast who enjoys watching latest shows and films. She also enjoys engaging in debates and discussions on Reddit.Read More

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