Major Outages Impact Google Cloud, OpenAI, More This Week: What We Know

A series of outages plagued various websites, services, and platforms throughout the week, ultimately affecting productivity for users around the globe.

Google Cloud, Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Shopify are just a few of the companies that experienced outages this week, impacting the productivity of countless users worldwide. After scrambling to bring their systems back online as fast as possible, nearly everything seems to be operating as usual at the time of this writing on Friday, June 13.

Here’s a brief overview of when the outages occurred and how the primary company involved responded.

Google Cloud

Issues with Google Cloud began on Thursday, June 12. Since many popular websites rely on Google Cloud, this caused a domino effect that resulted in other services including GitHub, Mailchimp, and Twitch experiencing disruptions at various points during the day.

According to Downdetector, there were more than 13,000 separate outage reports involving Google Cloud ...