<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>A Google Cloud outage on Thursday caused widespread internet disruptions affecting services like Cloudflare and popular apps like Spotify.</li><li>Google Cloud started investigating service issues affecting customers at 11:46 a.m. PT with no estimated time for services to be restored.</li><li>Cloudflare also reported service disruptions around the same time but later started to see services recover.</li><li>Cloudflare stated that the outage was caused by a Google Cloud issue affecting a limited number of services that use Google Cloud.</li><li>Apps like Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and others experienced outages during the afternoon, according to reports on DownDetector.</li><li>Spotify spokesperson mentioned they were monitoring Google Cloud's status page for updates on the situation.</li><li>AWS reported no service disruptions on Thursday, and Microsoft Azure did not report any outages.</li><li>Efforts are being made to bring services back online, and disruptions like these are usually resolved within a few hours.</li></ul>

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