If you’ve been experiencing issues with a single part or various parts of Google’s massive operation, or with playing your favorite songs or podcasts on Spotify, you’re not alone.
Since over an hour ago, at 2 PM ET in New York City, reported issues on outage tracker Down Detector have been spiking for Google, Google Cloud, and Spotify, to the extent that Google has confirmed issues impacting its various services as of 3:01 PM ET.
Spotify normally comments on issues via the @SpotifyStatus account on X (formerly Twitter), but as of now, it’s remaining silent. Now, the TechRadar team uses various parts of Google – mainly G-Suite with Docs – and hasn’t encountered issues yet, but my Spotify has been experiencing some issues with extended load times.
Considering that two major services are reporting issues, this could signal larger issues with a cloud data provider like Cloudflare. Either route, we’re starting our live reporting to keep you up to date on the latest developments with the outages affecting Google and Spotify.
A Quick Look at Down Detector’s homepage as of 3:25 PM ET shows that an extensive range of services are experiencing issues, with some leveling off or dropping, with Google, Google Cloud, and Spotify at the forefront, alongside Discord and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Google and Google Cloud both began spiking in the 2 PM ET hour, reaching over 10,000 reports, while Spotify also started in that hour but is currently at over 44,000 reports.
Google is investigating the issue
Google’s status page currently lists an active ‘Service Disruption’ as of 3:01PM ET that is impacting a number of services – it’s a good note, though, as teams at the company are investigating.
“We’re investigating reports of an issue with Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, Google Cloud Search, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Meet, Google Tasks, and Google Voice. We will provide more information shortly.
Multiple Workspace products beginning on Thursday, at 2025-06-12 10:58 PDT may be experiencing service issues.
Our engineers are currently investigating the issue.
We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.”
It’s impacting several services from the entire G-Suite, including Gmail. Still, Google doesn’t clarify if a specific user set is experiencing the issue. As of now, I can access my personal and work Google accounts without problem. However, individuals in the comments on Down Detector are reporting issues with Messages, Google Cloud, and Google Voice.
Spotify has still not issued a statement, although reported issues on Down Detector continue to grow, now standing at over 45,000 reports as of 3:22 PM ET. We have also reached out to the streaming giant to request a comment.
It does seem that a majority of these issues started shortly after the 2 PM ET hour and are now stretching to over an hour of disruptions.
At the same time that these issues with Google and Spotify began emerging, Cloudflare is dealing with its own problems, according to the company’s status page.
The latest update, as of 3:12 PM ET, from Cloudfalre notes that its services are starting to recover, but issues are still present.
“We are starting to see services recover. We still expect to see intermittent errors across the impacted services as systems handle retried and caches are filled.”
Considering that Discord and Snapchat are also experiencing a spike in reports, these issues may well be related to the problems affecting Cloudflare.
