Several important platforms, including Google Cloud, Cloudflare and Spotify, seemed to experience technical problems or cuts on Thursday; The reports of Cortes in Downdetector.com increased throughout the afternoon and the Internet Company Cloudflare reported generalized cuts of the service, although most of the problems were resolved at this time.
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Cloudflare, who serves dozens of millions of web applications per second, said at 2:46 PM EDT that he was seeing “a series of services suffering intermittent failures”, before pointing at 4:57 PM EDT that all services were completely restored.
Cloudflare told Forbes in an email that the problems experienced on Thursday were the result of a Google Cloud interruption, and pointed out that “a limited number of services in Cloudflare use Google Cloud and were affected.”
Google Cloud also reported problems with many of its products in the cloud worldwide and said that at 5:23 PM EDT, most of its products had recovered (Google confirmed in an email to Forbes that was investigating interruptions in some services).
The reports of interruptions of the Amazon Web Services service made in Downdector reached almost 6,000 at 2:49 PM EDT before decreasing to 1,400 to 3:53 PM EDT, although the cloud computing platform did not report problems on its state page throughout the day.
Amazon communicated with Forbes and said that the reports that AWS was inactive “are inaccurate” and that AWS services “are normally working”, but did not offer an explanation about generalized complaints.
Other websites and peak platforms in the reported problems were Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, YouTube, Gmail, Google Meet and Etsy, and interruption reports decreased largely at 3:55 pm edt.
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The social media platforms such as X, Facebook and Instagram seemed to be largely safe from the interruptions, with only a few hundred reports of interruptions made in Downdector.
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Although social media platforms were not largely affected by Thursday’s websites, X, formerly known as Twitter, suffered several interruptions throughout May, and users sent tens of thousands of interruption reports in Downdector. The problems with the social media platform caught the attention of their billionaire owner and executive director of Tesla, Elon Musk, who claimed to have “spent again 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at work and sleep in conferences, servers and factories” rooms “and that X needed” important operational improvements. ” Before he finished his period as a special government employee in the Trump administration, the critics and shareholders of the numerous Musk companies expressed concern about the excess of time he dedicated to politics, pointing to his role as the tsar of the reduction of Trump’s expenses.
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Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are among the main cloud service providers in the US, providing crucial infrastructure for the operation of the Internet. The HG INSIGHTS market analysis firm estimated in a 2024 report that Google Cloud market share reached 28 % among the main cloud service providers. Like Thursday’s problems, the platform experienced problems with some of its products on four different occasions for 2024, although the problems did not affect as many regions as Thursday.
This article was originally published by Forbes Us.
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