So The Internet Died A Little Yesterday...
Source: YouTube · SomeOrdinaryGamers · published Jun 13, 2025 · 16:00
The internet experienced a widespread outage yesterday due to a simple Google misconfiguration, not a cyberattack, highlighting the fragile state of global internet infrastructure 2:00.
Key Takeaways:
• A misconfiguration in Google Cloud’s identity and access management caused a ripple effect across major services like Spotify, Discord, and YouTube 2:17.
• Google, Microsoft, and Amazon control 60–70% of the world’s internet infrastructure, making the system highly vulnerable to outages 2:32.
• Cloudflare, which provides critical CDN and DNS services, also suffered a 2-hour outage affecting numerous websites 4:57.
• Apple alone used 470 petabytes of Google cloud storage in 2020, demonstrating deep interdependence between tech giants 9:49.
The internet is now overly centralized and fragile—small technical errors can trigger massive disruptions, underscoring the need for more resilient, decentralized systems.
Sources:
- 2:00 Misconfiguration at Google Cloud caused widespread outages.
- 2:17 List of affected services including Spotify, Discord, and YouTube.
- 2:32 Google, Microsoft, and Amazon dominate global internet infrastructure.
- 4:57 Cloudflare outage lasted 2 hours and 28 minutes.
- 9:49 Apple stored 470 petabytes on Google Cloud in 2020.
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Hello guys and gals. Me Mudahar and yesterday the internet died very briefly, but the internet did in fact die. A whole chunk of the internet just decided to go belly up out of nowhere. Now if you were, you know, using the internet sometime between like 2:00 p.m. Eastern yesterday, you probably noticed that a lot of your favorite websites just decided to not work for a little bit. And uh you know there's a website known as Down Detector that you can go to that'll give you a great idea of what exactly dies, right? So, surprisingly, around the time Google ended up having this spike of reports, so did Spotify. So did Snapchat. So did Door Dash, so did Discord. So did the Google Cloud, Cloudflare. In fact, going all the way down to even YouTube obviously started to have some issues. If you wer…