Alphabet's Google said on Thursday it had resolved a brief global service disruption on its platforms that affected multiple services such as music streamer Spotify and instant messaging provider Discord.

Google Cloud outage affected 40 locations, and even Cloudflare Spotify, Discord and more went down, as were some Workspace apps Google blamed a dodgy update for the outage, promises to "do better" A number of popular websites went offline yesterday after Google Cloud experienced a major outage which saw users unable to access the likes of Spotify,