Systemic Dependencies and the Google Cloud Outage of June 12, 2025

On June 12, 2025, a major outage at Google Cloud triggered widespread service disruptions across the internet. The failure cascaded across multiple platforms, including both infrastructure-level providers and consumer-facing applications. This event illustrates the latent fragility of a heavily interconnected digital ecosystem, underscoring the structural risks associated with cloud centralization and service dependency. Google Cloud … Read more