<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>A major Google Cloud outage occurred on Thursday, impacting various online services and platforms globally.</li><li>Apps affected included Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, Character.AI, Cursor, and Replit.</li><li>User reports of service disruptions began surfacing late Thursday morning on DownDetector.</li><li>Google Cloud started investigating the issue at 11:46 a.m. PT and initiated mitigation steps by 2:23 p.m. PT.</li><li>Cloudflare, dependent on Google Cloud for some functions, also experienced disruptions.</li><li>Cloudflare confirmed the impact on some customers but highlighted that core services remained operational.</li><li>Spotify noted they were monitoring the situation through Google Cloud's status page.</li><li>Other cloud providers like AWS and Microsoft Azure reported no outage notifications.</li><li>The outage began around 11 a.m. PT, affecting users in the U.S. and beyond during work hours.</li><li>Large-scale cloud outages often have ripple effects but are usually resolved within hours.</li><li>Google anticipates full recovery soon, with many services already returning online.</li></ul>

Google Cloud Outage Disrupts Major Apps Worldwide

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