On June 12, 2025, a faulty quota configuration in Google Cloud’s API management system triggered widespread 503 errors across Google Cloud, Workspace, and many third-party apps like Spotify, Discord, and Cloudflare 0 1.
Duration: ~3 hours (10:49 AM–1:49 PM Pacific)
Global impact: DNS failures, deployment blocks, broken identity services — chaos.
Google published that an invalid automated quota update was pushed globally, overloading the policy system since quota checks are regional.
They ultimately bypassed the faulty policy, but recovery took 2‑3 hours, with regions like us‑central1 taking longest *2.
Nearly 70+ Google services disrupted (e.g. Gmail, Drive, Cloud Console) *3
External platforms like Spotify, Discord, OpenAI went dark *4
Dev teams couldn’t deploy, support tools failed, authentication systems broke — widespread infra paralysis.
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