Several platforms, including music streaming service Spotify and instant messaging platform Discord, were inaccessible to tens of thousands of users on Thursday following an outage at Alphabet’s Google Cloud.”Our engineers are continuing to mitigate the issue and we have confirmation that the issue is recovered in some locations,” Reuters reported Google Cloud as saying. The company added that it could not provide an exact timeline for full resolution, according to Reuters.
Google Cloud’s status page confirmed that multiple products were facing varying levels of service disruption. Downdetector, which tracks outages by compiling status reports from various sources, recorded over 10,000 problem reports for Google Cloud and more than 44,000 for Spotify at approximately 2:46 p.m. ET in the U.S.
Also Read: X suffers another global outage, Elon Musk says back to spending 24 hours at workUsers also logged over 4,000 incidents each with Google Meet and Google Search, while reports for Discord crossed 8,000, according to Reuters. Downdetector noted that its figures were based on user reports, and the actual number of affected users could differ.Additionally, disruptions in Amazon Web Services (AWS) contributed to the widespread service outages. Downdetector recorded over 13,000 reports related to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and more than 6,000 linked to AWS.As a result, several platforms experienced outages or service interruptions, including:
Spotify
Discord
Google Meet
Character.AI
Rocket League
Google Nest
Snapchat
Cloudflare
Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG)
FuboTV
Etsy
HighLevel
Box
Google Drive
Twitch
Downdetector showed a significant rise in outage reports for these services throughout the day.Also Read: ChatGPT experiences global outage; users in India and abroad report disruptionsFirst Published: Jun 13, 2025 2:08 AM IST
