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Google Cloud Incident Report – 2025-06-13
Jun 2025 16:45 PDT Incident Report Summary Google Cloud, Google Workspace and Google Security Operations products experienced increased 503 errors in external API requests, impacting customers. We deeply apologize for the impact this outage has had.
Distributed regionally, these management and control planes are responsible for ensuring each API request that comes in is authorized, has the policy and appropriate checks (like quota) to meet their endpoints. This pulled in blank fields for this respective policy change and exercised the code path that hit the null pointer causing the binaries to go into a crash loop. It took up to ~2h 40 mins to fully resolve in us-central-1 as we throttled task creation to minimize the impact on the underlying infrastructure and routed traffic to multi-regional databases to reduce the load.
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