San Francisco, NFAPost: In a sudden development, large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday, affecting a range of services, from global cloud platform Cloudflare to popular apps like Spotify. According to analaysts, the Google Cloud outage is at the root of these other service disruptions.
Google Cloud said it started investigating service issues affecting its customers at 11:46 a.m. PT. As of 2:23 p..m PT, the company said it had implemented mitigations, and expects to have its services back up and running within the hour.
“We are currently investigating a service disruption to some Google Cloud services,” said Google Cloud spokesperson Devon Smiley. At 11:19 a.m. PT, Cloudfare also said it was investigating service disruptions affecting its customers, according to its status page. At 12:12 p.m. PT, Cloudflare said it was starting to see its services recover after investigating the issue.
“This is a Google Cloud outage,” said Cloudflare spokesperson Ripley Park in an email to TechCrunch. “A limited number of services at Cloudflare use Google Cloud and were impacted. We expect them to come back shortly. The core Cloudflare services were not impacted.”
Thousands of users have reported that popular apps, including Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and Character.AI, experienced outages on Thursday afternoon, according to the crowdsourced reporting platform DownDetector. AI coding apps such as Cursor and Replit also appeared to go down on Thursday.
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