Google Cloud Crash Hits Spotify, ChatGPT, YouTube! Is Your Data Safe After the Outage? 😱🔥

– Google Cloud suffered a major outage on June 12–13, affecting global platforms like Spotify and OpenAI. –

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– The cause was an invalid automated quota update that triggered massive 503 errors across APIs. – –

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– Services like Discord, Snapchat, GitLab, and Cloudflare also faced downtime due to backend reliance on Google.

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– Google responded quickly, bypassing the faulty quota check and restoring most services in about 2 hours.

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– A "mini incident report" was released, with a full root cause analysis promised by Google soon.

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– The outage exposed the risks of over-dependence on single cloud providers for global services.

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– Businesses and developers are now urged to implement failovers and multi-cloud strategies for resilience.

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