Disruptions to services like Cloudflare, Google Cloud, and Shopify could cause ripple effects across the internet. And because the disruption occurred during work hours, frustrated workers are ...

Multiple popular online services were hit by outages on Thursday afternoon, including Spotify, Discord and Google, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks service disruptions across the web.

Google Cloud appears to be experiencing a widespread outage, with a sudden spike in user reports indicating major service disruptions.

Google's cloud suffered significant global outages on Thursday, knocking down or disrupting a number of large internet services. "We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products," a ...

Google reported that Google Cloud Platform (GCP), its popular cloud hosting service, experienced a problem Thursday afternoon.

Google subsequently noted that it was still investigating the service disruption and redirected CNN to view their public status dashboard for updates.

Google said it was “investigating a service disruption” when asked for comment. “We are currently investigating a service disruption to some Google Cloud services,” a representative said.

"We are currently investigating a service disruption to some Google Cloud services," a Google spokesperson said in an email, and pointed to the dashboard for updates.