A Google Cloud outage took down half internet
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Social media platform X showed signs of recovery on Saturday after an outage disrupted access for thousands of users in the United States, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
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.
Several Google services, like Search, Cloud, as well as, Spotify, and more, were hit with a massive outage today.
OpenAI’s 400 million ChatGPT users experienced “elevated error rates” worldwide on Tuesday as consumers reported thousands of technical issues, according to data from DownDetector.com, a website that tracks online service outages.
Google Cloud services were down and are affecting other sites, according to Replit and Cloudflare.
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Numerous sites and apps are experiencing problems this afternoon but, as of Thursday evening, those services were starting to recover.
A widespread outage Thursday afternoon affected multiple online services, including Google, Spotify, Discord, and more. Reports of service disruptions have flooded outage tracker DownDetector, with users experiencing login failures, loading issues, and app crashes.
If you're noticing that some websites or services are running slowly (or not at all), you're not alone. There are widespread outages affecting services across the web, including Google, Spotify, and Pokémon Go.