Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday, affecting a range of services, from global cloud platform Cloudflare to popular apps like Spotify.
At 11:19 am PT, Cloudflare said it was investigating service disruptions affecting its customers, according to its status page. At 12:12 pm PT, Cloudflare said it was starting to see its services recover after investigating the issue. Meanwhile, Google Cloud said it started investigating service issues affecting its customers around the same time, but it still does not have an ETA for when its services will be back online.
AWS and Microsoft Azure also appear to be experiencing outages on Thursday, according to reports on Downdetector, a site that aggregates reports of problems from online users. However, those companies have not reported any service disruptions on their official channels.
Thousands of users have reported that popular apps, including Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and Character.AI experienced outages on Thursday afternoon, according to the crowdsourced reporting platform DownDetector.
It’s unclear at this time what the root of these issues is, or whether they’re all connected.
TechCrunch has reached out to the cloud providers and companies mentioned for additional comment, but we have not heard back at the time of publication.
Typically, service disruptions of this nature are resolved in a matter of hours. These outages appeared to start around 11 am PT on Thursday, disrupting the middle of the work day for millions of people across the U.S. It seems likely that services will start coming back online relatively shortly.
