{"id":3664,"date":"2025-07-18T17:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T17:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3664\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T17:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T17:13:11","slug":"google-costco-and-more-popular-sites-crash-as-massive-internet-outage-sweeps-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/3664\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Costco and more popular sites crash as massive internet outage sweeps US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-127\/stacy-liberatore.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  12:21 EDT, 18 July 2025   |  Updated:  12:48 EDT, 18 July 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A massive internet <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/tech-outages\/index.html\" id=\"mol-3a429450-63f3-11f0-8d10-7daf8069c9fd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">outage<\/a> has <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-9189555\/Widespread-internet-outages-hit-northeast-U-S.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hit the US, knocking dozens of popular websites offline.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">According to Downdetector, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/google\/index.html\" id=\"mol-3a3dd960-63f3-11f0-8d10-7daf8069c9fd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google<\/a>, Costco, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/spotify\/index.html\" id=\"mol-3a3e9cb0-63f3-11f0-8d10-7daf8069c9fd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spotify<\/a> and many others <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-9663885\/Hundreds-websites-worldwide-DOWN.html\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">went down around 10:30am ET.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Many features of Google Workspace are also experiencing issues, including Gmail, Drive, Cloud and Chat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Users may face challenges accessing their accounts and files in the middle of a workday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While thousands of Americans issued reports to Downdetector, the outage seems to be <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/galleries\/article-14807521\/Internet-outage-hits-US-users-report-popular-sites-down.html\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plaguing all parts of the globe<\/a>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Frustrated users blasted Google on X, with one saying: &#8216;The popular search engine and backbone of many people&#8217;s online lives has received numerous Down Detector reports today, indicating that something is wrong online lives.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Google has acknowledged the outage, saying: &#8216;We&#8217;re currently experiencing elevated latency and error rates for several Cloud services in the us-east1 region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Our initial investigation points to a hardware infrastructure failure as the likely cause.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-6d80e340182de199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100436357-0-image-a-1_1752855402463.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"A massive internet outage has hit the US, knocking dozens of popular websites offline\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">A massive internet outage has hit the US, knocking dozens of popular websites offline<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Google noted that the incident is also affecting Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Support, Google Compute Engine, Identity and Access Management, Secret Manager and Virtual Private Cloud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;All other zones in us-east1 are currently operating normally,&#8217; the tech giant added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Our engineers have recovered the failed hardware and are currently recovering the network control plane in the affected zones.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Google, Costco and more popular sites crash as massive internet outage sweeps US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 12:21 EDT, 18 July 2025 | Updated: 12:48 EDT, 18 July 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,63,100,113,237,5281,5282,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-3664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-internet","13":"tag-sciencetech","14":"tag-spotify","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}