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

Google Cloud seems to be at the core of a major outage affecting popular internet apps and services on Thursday.

This caused major disruptions across the internet, from services like Spotify and Snapchat to Cloudflare and Discord, as you can see in the screenshot from Downdetector above. "Our engineers have identified the root cause and have applied appropriate mitigations,