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.

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.

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 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.

Multiple popular online platforms, including Spotify, Discord, and Google services, suffered significant disruptions starting earlier this week, with

The problems swept across major services and websites for an uncomfortable stretch on Thursday before recovery began kicking in.

A major global outage has taken down Spotify, Etsy, Discord, Twitch and dozens more, as Google Cloud, Cloudflare and AWS report widespread service disruptions.