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Any major problems with providers like this will result in lots of your favorite online sites and apps going down. Down Detector on Thursday saw user-reported issues at Twitch, Gmail, Discord, Nintendo Switch Online, Spotify, and dozens more platforms. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.)
The massive internet outage on Wednesday where Google Cloud Platforms, Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare saw significant downtime was linked to a cyberattack by social media. , US Buzz News - Times N
Google Cloud services were down and are affecting other sites, according to Replit and Cloudflare.
Many AI developers started their morning amid a Google Cloud outage affecting many of the tools they use to build products.
Countless sites and services — stalwarts like Twitch, Gmail, Discord, Nintendo, and more — went down on Thursday afternoon, eastern time. The internet, even as large swaths of it went down, was quick to react on social media. And, in short, people were freaking out.
A widespread outage Thursday afternoon affected multiple online services, including Google, Spotify, Discord, and more. Reports of service disruptions have flooded outage tracker DownDetector, with users experiencing login failures, loading issues, and app crashes.