Google Cloud Experiences Major Outage

Google Cloud on Thursday experienced a major outage that impacted several services globally, according to a Google website tracking the status of its products.

The Google Cloud dashboard indicated that the Google Cloud Console—a main interface where customers access the Google Cloud platform—identity and access management services, and its storage product were down, among other products. By early afternoon Pacific Time, Google said on the dashboard that the issue was fixed in “some locations” but that there was no estimate on when it would be fully resolved. Google spokespeople did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In the meantime, companies using Google to host their websites, such as the AI startup Julius AI, started posting publicly and notifying customers that their services were down. Google has sought to catch up with Amazon and Microsoft in cloud computing, or hosting web services on remote servers, where it is still third in the market. Google Cloud recently scored a win with a deal to rent AI chip servers to OpenAI, Reuters first reported.