A severe outage occurred in Google Cloud services, causing many large internet services to be paralyzed or interrupted. The wide range of impact troubled numerous users. According to the information on Google Cloud's status page, the fault occurred at 10:51 AM Pacific Time, and the Google Cloud team immediately began investigating the issue.

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After the problem occurred, Google's engineers stated that they were continuously working to restore the service. However, as time passed, Google confirmed that customers were still experiencing varying degrees of impact. Even during the process of identifying and handling the problem, there was no clear estimate for when recovery would be completed. Users expressed concerns about the service interruption, particularly some enterprises and services that rely on the Google Cloud platform.

This outage affected several well-known internet services that depend on Google Cloud, including OpenAI and Shopify, impacting their users who were unable to use the relevant services normally. On social media, many users shared their experiences of various inconveniences. In particular, in the e-commerce and online service sectors, the outage caused significant困扰 for both merchants and consumers.

The Google Cloud team said they were doing everything possible to resolve the issue and would continue to update the status information to keep users informed of the progress. This incident served as a reminder to businesses and users alike that when using cloud services, it is still necessary to consider the risk of potential service interruptions. It also highlighted the importance of cloud services and their impact on users' daily operations.