Google Cloud was identified by a Cloudflare representative as the cause of a massive outage that disrupted services across the internet Thursday. The widespread internet outage affected a variety of popular platforms, with users reporting problems accessing Google services, Cloudflare, Spotify, Twitch, and Discord.

Multiple popular online services were hit by outages on Thursday afternoon, including Spotify, Discord, Google and Amazon Web Services, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks service disruptions across the web.

Big G said it was fixed, but acknowledged ongoing customer pain Google Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.… Google published its first status update 11:46 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) when it reported over 40 of its locations and 26 services were “experiencing impact due to Identity and Access Management Service Issue.

The problems swept across major services and websites for an uncomfortable stretch on Thursday before recovery began kicking in.

Google Cloud services were down and are affecting other sites, according to Replit and Cloudflare.

Short for Domain Name System, a DNS resolver acts as the Internet phone book, translating user requests into strings of numbers – IP addresses – to connect them with the right