On Thursday, a widespread disruption in Google Cloud services sent ripples across the digital world, temporarily knocking out several popular platforms including Google Home, Spotify, Snapchat, and even parts of Cloudflare's operations. In a follow-up statement, Google has offered initial insights into the cause behind the significant outage. The tech giant attributed the incident to an internal glitch—specifically, an invalid automated quota update within its API management system. This misconfigured update was inadvertently propagated globally, which led to the rejection of external API requests. As a result, services dependent on Google Cloud infrastructure experienced abrupt service interruptions.