Google, OpenAI, Spotify and other platforms experience outage, affecting tens of thousands of users
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Amazon Web Services, Google, OpenAI and Spotify were down on Thursday after a widespread technology outage.
A large number of platforms appear to have been impacted, with tens of thousands of users reporting issues on Downdetector.com, a website that tracks outages. Reports started to escalate around 2 p.m. EST and peaked around 2:30 p.m. before tapering off for most platforms.
In a statement on its website Thursday afternoon, Cloudflare, which provides services to several major companies impacted by the outage, said that a number of its services were suffering intermittent failures and that it was investigating the matter.
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