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Alphabet Apologizes for Major 7-Hour Cloud Outage

6/18/2025

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Alphabet, the parent company of Google, issued an apology following a seven-hour outage on June 12 that crippled more than 70 cloud services worldwide, including Gmail and Google Drive. The disruption was caused by faulty updates and untested features. In response, Alphabet is committed to enhancing its system architecture and communication to avert similar issues in the future, as GOOGL stock faces a 7% decline this year.

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Alphabet, the parent company of Google, issued an apology following a seven-hour outage on June 12 that crippled more than 70 cloud services worldwide, including Gmail and Google Drive. The disruption was caused by faulty updates and untested features. In response, Alphabet is committed to enhancing its system architecture and communication to avert similar issues in the future, as GOOGL stock faces a 7% decline this year.