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

NEW YORK — Popular online services across the globe were disrupted Thursday due to ongoing issues at Google Cloud. Tens of thousands of users of Spotify, Discord and other platforms began noticing issues with their services early in the afternoon, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages.

Google Cloud outage affected 40 locations, and even Cloudflare Spotify, Discord and more went down, as were some Workspace apps Google blamed a dodgy update for the outage, promises to "do better" A number of popular websites went offline yesterday after Google Cloud experienced a major outage which saw users unable to access the likes of Spotify,