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CNET
13-06-2025
- Business
- CNET
Google Cloud Stumbled and Unplugged the Internet: Here's How That Happened
Tobias Schwarz/CNET A massive but partial internet outage wiped out vast swaths of the online world Thursday, kicked off by issues with Google Cloud services and affecting sites including Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, UPS, Pokemon and many of Google's own Workspace offerings. By about 3 hours after it began, the issue was resolved and most sites and services had returned to normal operations. Late Thursday, Google issued a preliminary incident report on its Cloud status page, tying the incident to disruptions in its API management system. And apologized: "We are deeply sorry for the impact to all of our users and their customers." The Google Cloud platform supports a wide array of fundamental internet services, from networking to storage to AI, that businesses rely on. IT services company Cloudflare, describing how the outage affected its customers, said that "the proximate cause (or trigger) for this outage was a third-party vendor failure." Earlier in the day, as we all found ourselves blocked from accessing favorite services or necessary work tools, Google was noting that its engineers had "identified the root cause" and had taken steps to mitigate the issues. Still, some areas were not responding as fast as others. "Our infrastructure has recovered in all regions except us-central1," Google said. Affected companies began noting that they were seeing recovery. By 2 p.m. PT Thursday, the Downdetector service was showing that the spikes in outages were largely past their peaks and quickly heading toward zero reports of problems. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, which is also the parent company of CNET.) Google noted on its Workspace status page that its services were back up and running. "The problem with Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, Google Cloud Search, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Meet, Google Tasks, and Google Voice has been resolved," it posted at 12:53 p.m. PT. "We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support." See below for the latest updates and notes on individual sites and services.
CNET
12-06-2025
- CNET
Google Cloud Outage Causes Widespread Internet Disruption: Spotify, Discord and More Affected
A massive but partial internet outage wiped out vast swaths of the online world Thursday, kicked off by issues with Google Cloud services and affecting sites including Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, UPS, Pokemon and many of Google's own Workspace offerings. As of 12:41 PT and again at 1:16 PT, Google said on its Cloud status page that its engineers had "identified the root cause" had taken steps to mitigate the issues. Still, some areas were not responding as fast as others. "Our infrastructure has recovered in all regions except us-central1," Google said. Companies affected are saying that they're seeing recovery. By around 2 p.m. PT, the Downdetector service was showing that the spikes in outages were largely past their peaks and quickly heading toward zero reports of problems. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, which is also the parent company of CNET.) Google noted on its Workspace status page that its services were back up and running. "The problem with Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, Google Cloud Search, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Meet, Google Tasks, and Google Voice has been resolved," it posted at 12:53 p.m. PT. "We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support." See below for the latest updates and notes on individual sites and services.
CTV News
30-05-2025
- General
- CTV News
Trespasser on tracks prompts brief suspension of subway service on part of Line 1
A Toronto Transit Commission sign is shown at a downtown Toronto subway stop Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy Subway service has resumed along a portion of Line 1 after a trespasser on the tracks snarled service during the morning rush hour. Service between College and St. Clair stations was impacted for about an hour but the issue cleared just after 10 a.m. Shuttle buses were utilized during the service suspension.
CNA
21-05-2025
- Business
- CNA
Bell Canada outage eases after hitting tens of thousands of users
An outage that left tens of thousands of Bell Canada customers without internet access in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario began easing on Wednesday as the company moved to restore outage started around 9 a.m. ET and triggered more than 130,000 disruption reports at its peak, according to tracking website The number of reports came down to around 4,000 by 10:44 a.m. a unit of BCE, said it was working to restore the "service as quickly as possible." Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted reports.
National Post
21-05-2025
- Business
- National Post
Bell internet outage affected more than 140,000 in Ontario and Quebec
Thousands of Canadians were offline Wednesday morning due to a widespread Bell internet outage. Article content Article content The company confirmed on social media that service for some Quebec and Ontario customers may be interrupted and said it is working to resolve the issue. Article content Article content Some customers in Ontario and Quebec may be experiencing an Internet service interruption. We are working to restore service as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience. — Bell Support (@Bell_Support) May 21, 2025 Article content Article content
