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Days after OpenAI and Google Cloud announced a partnership to support the growing use of generative AI platforms, much of the AI-powered web and tools went down due to an outage of the leading cloud providers.
Google Cloud Service Platform (GCP) and some Cloudflare services began experiencing issues around 10:00 a.m. PT today, affecting several AI development tools and data storage services, including ChatGPT and Claude, as well as a variety of other AI platforms.
We are aware of a service disruption to some Google Cloud services and we are working hard to get you back up and running ASAP.
Please view our status dashboard for the latest updates: https://t.co/sT6UxoRK4R — Google Cloud (@googlecloud) June 12, 2025
A GCP spokesperson confirmed the outage to VentureBeat, urging users to check its public status dashboard.
GCP said affected services include API Gateway, Agent Assist, Cloud Data Fusion, Contact Center AI Platform, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Identity Platform, Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech and Vertex AI Search, among other tools. Google’s mobile development platform, Firebase, also went down.
VentureBeat staffers had trouble accessing Google Meet, but other Google services on Workspace remained online.
A Cloudflare spokesperson told VentureBeat only “a limited number of services at Cloudflare use Google Cloud and were impacted. We expect them to come back shortly. The core Cloudflare services were not impacted.”
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