Google Cloud experienced outages causing disruptions for many online services, with issues reported for Google products and other businesses.
The outages started around 11AM PT/2 PM ET, and Google was able to restore function to its own apps but other businesses continued to face problems.
Google stated that the root cause was identified and mitigations were applied, with recovery in most regions except us-central1.
Several services like Spotify, Discord, Amazon Web Services, Snapchat, Etsy, UPS, and OpenAI were affected with disruptions or a surge of reports on DownDetector.
Even the Pokemon Trading Card Game and Pokemon Go experienced issues during the outages.
Snapchat and OpenAI acknowledged the service disruptions while working on resolving the problems.
The situation is still evolving, with Google's engineers actively working on full recovery without providing an estimated time for complete restoration.