<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>A massive Google Cloud outage on Thursday caused service disruptions for various internet services starting around 11:46 a.m. PT.</li><li>The outage affected services like Spotify, Snapchat, Cloudflare, and Discord.</li><li>Google engineers identified the root cause and implemented mitigations, but full service recovery is still pending.</li><li>The outage mainly impacted Google Cloud products, with recovery in most locations except 'us-central1' in Iowa.</li><li>Updates indicated that infrastructure recovery was in progress, with recovery expected in less than an hour as of 2:00 p.m. PT.</li></ul>

A Google Cloud outage took down half the internet on Thursday

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