<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>Google Cloud experienced an outage that affected Cloudflare and its customers on Thursday.</li><li>Google reported issues with over 40 locations and 26 services due to an Identity and Access Management Service Issue.</li><li>Google Cloud Console was impacted, preventing users from accessing services like Cloud Storage and Cloud SQL.</li><li>By 12:30 PT, Google stated the incident was mostly resolved except for the us-central1 region in Iowa.</li><li>Customers still faced various impacts on Google Cloud products even after the initial resolution.</li><li>Google assured customers that engineering teams were working on service recovery.</li><li>Cloudflare, which relies on Google Cloud, also experienced downtime.</li><li>Cloudflare highlighted its issues before Google acknowledged the problem.</li><li>During the incident, AWS, Azure, Spotify, and Discord also experienced problems.</li><li>The incident possibly caused a domino effect where Google's outage impacted Cloudflare and its customers.</li><li>Google Cloud's cloud arm is investigating the service disruption.</li><li>The story is developing, and updates will be provided by The Register.</li></ul>

Global Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare and its customers with it

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