Irish users are experiencing widespread disruptions to major internet services this evening following a significant outage affecting Cloudflare, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services.
The disruption, which began around 6:50 PM Irish time, has impacted thousands of users attempting to access popular platforms including Spotify, Discord, Google services, and numerous other online applications that rely on these cloud infrastructure providers.
Downdetector, which monitors service outages based on user reports, has recorded tens of thousands of incident reports since the problems began. The affected services include Google Meet, Google Drive, Google Cloud Platform, Spotify with over 27,000 user reports, Discord, Snapchat, Amazon Web Services, and streaming platform Twitch.
Google acknowledged the issues on their status page, stating:
“We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products beginning at Thursday, 2025-06-12 10:51 PDT. Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.”
Cloudflare, the San Francisco-based content delivery network that helps protect and accelerate websites globally, confirmed on their status page that they are experiencing a “broad” outage affecting multiple services. The company’s infrastructure supports thousands of websites and applications worldwide, meaning the ripple effects are being felt far beyond their direct customer base.
The outage highlights the interconnected nature of modern internet infrastructure, where problems with major cloud providers can cascade across seemingly unrelated services. For Cork residents and businesses, this means potential disruptions to everything from video calls and file sharing to entertainment streaming and online shopping.
While some services report intermittent connectivity, engineers at multiple companies are working to restore full functionality. This remains a developing situation with companies providing updates as restoration efforts continue.
The timing coincides with scheduled maintenance at Cloudflare’s Manchester data centre, though it’s unclear whether this is connected to the broader service disruptions.