# The cloud broke Thursday and it’ll happen again – how to protect your business before then

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/the-cloud-broke-thursday-and-itll-happen-again-how-to-protect-your-business-before-then/
- Published: 2025-06-17T09:30:00-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Photo credit: Pixabay. Article by Steven Vaughan-Nichols. ZDNet – June 13, 2025. After a rocky Thursday afternoon on the internet, both Google and Cloudflare services appear to be operating normally as of Friday morning. When trouble started, the question wasn’t what’s wrong with what cloud service; it was, what service isn’t down? What happened on Thursday?  First, this was not just an American problem. Google Cloud reported that it was a global problem. Google stated that multiple GCP products were experiencing impact due to Identity and Access Management Service issues. […] Click here to view original web page at www.zdnet.com