The music streaming platform is down and won't let you hear music and podcasts. We look at how you can find out about its status and problems.

There were 13,000 reports of issues with Google Cloud and 27,000 reports for Spotify just before 11.30am PT on Thursday, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages of online services. ‘We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products ...

Numerous websites and online services, including Google services, Spotify, DoorDash, and more, are reportedly encountering outages Thursday afternoon amid what appears to be a widespread outage. Outage tracker DownDetector shows dozens of sites and services are seeing increased rates of user-reported issues.