Major Outage Hits Google Cloud and Linked Cloudflare Services, Thousands Affected
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On June 12, 2025, concurrent infrastructure failures at Cloudflare and Google caused widespread service disruptions, highlighting vulnerabilities in modern cloud dependencies.
The outages impacted critical services ranging from authentication systems to AI platforms, underscoring the fragility of interconnected internet ecosystems.
Cloudflare Outage:
Cloudflare’s outage began at 17:52 UTC when internal monitoring detected failures in device registrations for its Zero Trust WARP service.
The root cause was traced to a failure in a third-party cloud provider’s storage infrastructure, which supported Cloudflare’s Workers KV service—a distributed key-value store used for configuration, authentication, and asset delivery.
Workers KV experienced a 90.22% request failure rate, triggering cascading failures across dependent services:
| Service | Impact |
|---|---|
| Workers KV | 90.22% of cold read/write requests failed; central storage outage disrupted global operations. |
| Zero Trust Access | Authentication flows broke for new sessions; 100% failure rate for device ... |
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