Google, Spotify and Cloudflare
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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.
The problems swept across major services and websites for an uncomfortable stretch on Thursday before recovery began kicking in.
Numerous sites and apps are experiencing problems this afternoon but, as of Thursday evening, those services were starting to recover.
Thousands of users reported issues or outages with products or services at Google, Spotify, Etsy, Snapchat, UPS and more, according to Downdetector, a platform that tracks digital outages.
The tech giant isn't the only platform reporting issues. Spotify, Discord, Amazon Web Services and Snapchat are currently topping the charts on DownDetector. Even the Pokemon Trading Card Game is having problems.