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

At least 13 Google Cloud services experienced outages shortly before 2 p.m. ET across the U.S., Europe, Asia, and more, a Google Cloud status page stated Thursday afternoon, June 12. “We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products,” the status page reads. “Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.”

NEW YORK — Popular online services across the globe were disrupted Thursday due to ongoing issues at Google Cloud. Tens of thousands of users of Spotify, Discord and other platforms began noticing issues with their services early in the afternoon, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages.