On June 12, 2025, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experienced a major outage that disrupted a significant portion of the internet. The incident began around 10:49 AM Pacific Time, when Google Cloud reported service issues affecting over 40 locations and 26 services globally.
The outage lasted for several hours, with most services recovering by the evening, though some regions, particularly us-central1 (Iowa), experienced lingering problems.
This type of planet scale incidents is terrifying and could have easily spiraled out of control and extended the time to recovery!
Let's breakdown what happened, and what has possibly transpired behind the scenes.
