Google issues 'mini incident report' on outage that disrupted Spotify, OpenAI, others; expresses deep regret

On June 12, 2025, Alphabet’s Google Cloud suffered a major outage lasting 3 hours, affecting global services like Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and OpenAI. The disruption began at 10:49 AM PT and was mostly resolved by 1:49 PM PT. Google attributed the issue to an invalid automated quota update in its API management system, which led to widespread 503 errors. A bypass was implemented to restore services, though the us-central1 region faced delays. Google has published a mini incident report and apologized deeply for the disruption, promising a full root cause analysis and improvements to prevent future failures.