Login failures, IAM issues, and control plane disruptions rendered IBM Cloud services inaccessible for hours across regions.

A series of outages plagued various websites, services, and platforms throughout the week, ultimately affecting productivity for users around the globe.

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.