Google, Spotify and outages
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Google Cloud experienced outages today that led to disruptions for many online services. Reports of issues for Google products and others began around 2 PM ET. The company was able to restore function to its own apps, but several other businesses have continued to experience problems for some users.
An outage at Cloudflare led to several leading applications, such as Google Cloud, Discord, Spotify, Twitch, Firebase, Cursor, etc. partially shutting down. This is a developing story.
Multiple popular online platforms, including Spotify, Discord, and Google services, suffered significant disruptions starting earlier this week, with
Downdetector, which tracks outages based on user reports, recorded over 10,000 incidents related to Google Cloud and more than 44,000 reports for Spotify around 2:46 p.m. ET in the U.S. Additionally, users reported over 4,000 incidents each for Google Meet and Google Search, and more than 8,000 for Discord.
A major global outage has taken down Spotify, Etsy, Discord, Twitch and dozens more, as Google Cloud, Cloudflare and AWS report widespread service disruptions.