Google stated that last week's major outage was caused by defects in multiple updates.

Google has apologized for the major disruption that occurred last week, stating that the outage was caused by defects in recent multi-layer updates. The company's report clarified the hours-long downtime last Thursday, during which over 70 Google Cloud services worldwide ceased to function normally, resulting in the paralysis or interruption of dozens of third-party services, including Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Shopify. Additionally, their own products such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and Google Meet also experienced failures. Google expressed deep regret for the impact of this disruption and committed to improvements to prevent similar outages in the future. The company added that it will review all systems and enhance its communication, both automatic and manual, so that customers can quickly obtain the necessary information to address the issues.