What breaks when Google Cloud goes down?

Google Cloud is an upstream dependency for 7 AI tools we track. When it has an outage, these can degrade or fail — and 5 have no fallback at all.

Blast radius
7
tools affected · 5 with no fallback

Tools that depend on Google Cloud

Ranked by how hard they break. Every relationship is sourced — click a badge to verify.

What to use instead right now

Operational tools that don't depend on Google Cloud (so a Google Cloudoutage won't take them with it):

ClaudeGrokCursorBoltPerplexityLLovableGGitHub CopilotPPoeMidjourneyElevenLabsRunway

Dependencies are curated and sourced (evidence shown per row). Impact and "no fallback" reflect public model/provider documentation, not a confirmed real-time outage of each product. AIDownCheck is independent and not affiliated with Google Cloud.