Seemingly, and according to Cloudflare, Google Cloud services were the primary, or at least a significant portion of the issue that caused other services to go down today, June 12, 2025. That includes Spotify and other Google services, such as G Suite and Workspace, as well as Discord and Snapchat.

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

OpenAI took to X/Twitter and shared an update on the outage, stating that its engineers have identified the root cause. The AI venture further stated that the techies are working on fixing the glitch that is causing elevated error rates and latency across the models and the API.