<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true">A massive internet outage on Thursday afternoon affected smart home setups connected to Google Home/Nest and streaming music on Spotify.Users faced errors accessing Spotify with messages like 'Audiences in Jwt are not allowed'; Google Cloud mentions issues only in the central US area.Reports from outage trackers and error messages hint at problems for services like Twitch, Snapchat, and Discord.Google Cloud acknowledged issues with 'Multiple GCP products' due to an Identity and Access Management Service problem.Recovery progress has been made in various locations globally except for us-central1.A message from Replit CEO noted Google Cloud's outage affecting Replit.Spotify, a Google Cloud customer, has faced outages before on its network.Cloudflare, which serves various online platforms, reported intermittent failures that could have global impacts.Cloudflare stated they are starting to see services recover amidst ongoing intermittent errors.Efforts to gather more information from Google and Cloudflare are underway to provide updates.The situation is still developing.