Core Points - Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, apologized for a significant service outage caused by a combination of recent multi-layer update defects [1] - The outage report released last Friday indicated that the issue stemmed from an abnormal update in its cloud platform quota system [1] - Over 70 Google Cloud services experienced disruptions, leading to outages or interruptions for dozens of third-party services such as Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Shopify, as well as Google's own products like Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and Google Meet [1]