<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experienced downtime affecting various services globally, including Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and Google's own products like Meet and Gmail.</li><li>Companies like Replit and Anthropic faced issues due to GCP outage, impacting their services and AI models.</li><li>GitHub reported degraded performance for AI models, including Claude and Google Gemini, during the outage.</li><li>Cloudflare, a major internet security provider, heavily impacted by GCP's outage, with services like Workers KV seeing significant request failures.</li><li>Cloudflare acknowledged their reliance on Google Cloud services, affecting various Cloudflare products like Access, Gateway, and the WARP client.</li><li>Reports of AWS and Azure outages were a misunderstanding, as only GCP's downtime was officially confirmed.</li><li>The incident highlighted the risks of relying on a single cloud service provider, affecting a wide array of internet services and applications worldwide.</li></ul>

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