Global Internet Outage TODAY Affects Google, Spotify, AWS: BGP Flaw Explained and Consequences

A massive internet outage hit essential services like Google , Spotify , and Amazon Web Services today, affecting millions. A "BGP routing failure" is the culprit. We explain what it means and why it's more serious than you think.

Today, June 12, 2025, the digital world experienced a significant shock. Millions of users suddenly found themselves disconnected from vital services, from work and communication platforms to entertainment and banking. The identified cause: a failure in a critical component of the internet infrastructure known as BGP .

The scale of the outage quickly became apparent as outage reports flooded platforms like Downdetector . The list of those affected is extensive and underscores our dependence on an interconnected digital ecosystem. Among the fallen giants are:

Spotify : Leaving millions without their daily soundtrack.

Google Cloud and its associated products : This includes Google Search , Gmail , Google Meet , Google Drive , Google Maps , and the Gemini artificial intelligence service. The shutdown of these services affects both individual users and businesses that rely on Google's suite for their operations.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) : One of the pillars of the global cloud, its fall drags down countless websites, applications and business services with it.

Cloudflare : A service crucial to the security and performance of millions of websites, whose disruption has a cascading effect.

YouTube : The world's leading video platform has become inaccessible to many.

Discord : The popular communication platform for communities and gamers.

OpenAI and other AI models : Services like ChatGPT and Claude are increasingly integrated into productivity and search tools.

Microsoft Azure : Another cloud services giant, proving that no provider is exempt.

Streaming and gaming platforms : Twitch , Rocket League , Fortnite , Pokémon TCG , affecting the vast online gaming community.

Social media and messaging : WhatsApp , Instagram , X (formerly Twitter) and Snapchat experienced significant issues.

Telecommunications providers : Companies such as Personal , Claro , and Telecom also recorded spikes in reports, indicating problems at the access infrastructure level.

Payment gateways and banks : Entities such as Galicia , Santander , Supervielle , and the Mercado Libre platform suffered interruptions, impacting e-commerce and financial transactions.

Business-critical services : Essential tools for developers and online businesses like GitHub , NPM , Splunk , and Shopify .

This extensive list demonstrates that the problem was not isolated, but systemic.

Such massive outages could have longer-term consequences. Today's outage isn't merely a temporary inconvenience; it underscores a systemic vulnerability. Confidence in the internet 's robustness is being shaken, which could prompt businesses and governments to require or invest in more secure and resilient routing protocols , or in network architectures that mitigate these risks.

The economic pressure stemming from downtime losses is a strong incentive for the technology industry to seek solutions to prevent the recurrence of these "digital shutdowns." We could see increased interest in technologies that allow for greater infrastructure diversification or faster and more effective failover mechanisms at the global routing level.

For businesses, this could mean re-evaluating their cloud vendor lock-in strategies and investing more in contingency plans and digital resilience .

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