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Google Cloud, Cloudflare struck by widespread outages

15 August 2026 · By · Wire by Fusion42

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15 August 2026

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technology

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Cloud Infrastructure

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United States

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Fusion42 · 15 August 2026 · Fusion42 review

Google Cloud experienced a global outage due to a faulty API quota update, impacting its products and major services like Cloudflare and Spotify. Cloudflare faced failures in its Workers KV storage service, causing cascading outages and highlighting risks in cloud service dependencies.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Cloud Infrastructure.

◆ ◆ The Wire takeaway

Large-scale cloud outages like this expose critical single points of failure in popular services and raise the stakes for your cloud provider strategy. You must urgently re-evaluate your service dependencies to avoid being blindsided by cascading disruptions.

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