What you can do is work on distributing your workloads across multiple cloud providers, eg, multi-cloud or combine public and private clouds, aka hybrid clouds. This reduces your risk of relying on a single provider and allows for failover if one cloud experiences an outage.

The problems swept across major services and websites for an uncomfortable stretch on Thursday before recovery began kicking in.

Google says an API management issue is behind Thursday's massive Google Cloud outage, which disrupted or brought down its services and many other online platforms.

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Faulty quota checks for API accesses triggered the global disruption to the Google Cloud. The company vows to improve.