Amazon Web Services, Google, OpenAI and Spotify were down on Thursday after a widespread technology outage.
A large number of sites appear to be impacted, with tens of thousands of users reporting issues on Downdetector.com, a website that tracks outages. Reports ticked up around 2 p.m. EST.
In a statement on its website Thursday afternoon, Cloudflare, which provides services to several major companies impacted by the outage, said that a number of its services were suffering intermittent failures and that it was investigating the matter.
By 3:12 p.m EST, the global cloud company said services were starting to recover. “We still expect to see intermittent errors across the impacted services as systems handle retried and caches are filled,” it stated in an update.
The source of the outage is Google Cloud, according to the company.
“This is a Google Cloud outage,” a spokesperson for Cloudflare told CBS MoneyWatch. “A limited number of services at Cloudflare use Google Cloud and were impacted. We expect them to come back shortly. The core Cloudflare services were not impacted.”
Spotify had the most outages, with 46,000 users reporting issues as of 3 p.m. EST on Thursday. Google Cloud also saw major disruptions, with more than 13,000 reports on Downdetector.
Other sites impacted include:
- Discord
- Google Meet
- Snapchat
- Character AI
- YouTube
- Box
- Etsy
- Pokémon Trading Card Game
- Cloudflare
- MailChimp
- UPS
- FuboTV
- Rocket League
- Verizon
- Vimeo
- Shopify
- HighLevel
- Paramount+
- Claude
Mary Cunningham
Mary Cunningham is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch. Before joining the business and finance vertical, she worked at “60 Minutes,” CBSNews.com and CBS News 24/7 as part of the CBS News Associate Program.
