Google outage: Glitch fixed in hours despite 10-min detection; reason & more

Google has issued an apology following a significant outage that disrupted Google Cloud services globally, impacting major platforms like Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Shopify. The downtime, lasting for hours, was attributed to a flawed update involving a new “quota policy checks” feature. Google engineers identified the issue quickly, but overloaded systems in larger regions prolonged the recovery.