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.

A major cloud outage on Thursday disrupted services across the United States, affecting platforms like Spotify, Discord, Google Meet, and Twitch. The issue was linked to technical problems with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS),