Google Cloud IAM failure ripples across the internet
An invalid automated quota policy update crashed Service Control. Gmail, Drive and Maps failed, and Spotify, Discord and Cloudflare services went down with it.
- Service
- Google Cloud
- Date
- 12 June 2025
- Cause
- Configuration change
- Duration
- 7.5 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- CIO.com ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Google Cloud IAM failure ripples across the internet”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 12 Jun 2025. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2025-06-12-google-cloud-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: CIO.com, https://www.cio.com/article/4109186/7-major-it-disasters-of-2025.html.
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