
Internet outages show signs of recovery as Spotify, Google and other popular online services are down for thousands of users
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Multiple popular online services were hit by outages on Thursday afternoon, including Spotify, Discord, Google and Amazon Web Services, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks service disruptions across the web.
Multiple popular online services were hit by outages on Thursday afternoon, including Spotify, Discord, Google and Amazon Web Services, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks service disruptions across the web. The disruptions came as service provider Cloudfare and Google Cloud experienced service disruptions. A Cloudfare representative told CNN that a Google Cloud outage was behind the issue and that its core services were not impacted. “This is a Google Cloud outage,” a Cloudfare representative said in an email to CNN. “A limited number of services at Cloudflare use Google Cloud and were impacted. We expect them to come back shortly.” Google said it was “investigating a service disruption” when asked for comment. “We are currently investigating a service disruption to some Google Cloud services,” a representative said. “Please view our public status dashboard for the latest updates.” Cloudfare said it was starting to see services recover in a note on its services status page on Thursday afternoon. A Spotify representative pointed CNN to Google’s Cloud services dashboard when asked about technical issues impacting the streaming service.

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