SAN FRANCISCO — From Google, Character.ai and Amazon to Discord, Spotify and Etsy, multiple websites were experiencing some variation of outages on Thursday. Thousands of reports were filed for the respective sites at DownDetector, flagging the outages as they happened.

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.

Alphabet’s Google said today 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.

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.

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,

A widespread outage Thursday afternoon affected multiple online services, including Google, Spotify, Discord, and more. Reports of service disruptions have flooded outage tracker DownDetector, with users experiencing login failures, loading issues, and app crashes.