Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian wrote on X that the company regretted "the disruption this caused our customers." Read more about the possible cause of the outage in our latest report on the event.

Starting around 2 p.m. Eastern, Google Cloud began experiences issues which caused a cascade of outages across a number of other services both Google-owned and third-party apps and platforms.

Google previously laid off 12,000 employees in early 2023, which made up around 6 percent of its global workforce. Recent buyouts have also targeted divisions such as hardware, human resources ...