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.

Google Cloud said on its status page that multiple products were experiencing varying levels of service impact.