If you’re having trouble accessing multiple major services today, you’re definitely not alone. Reports from users, and confirmed by data from Downdetector, indicate a widespread internet outage is currently impacting a wide range of popular platforms and infrastructure providers.
Among the affected services:
Spotify
Google services (including Google Cloud, Meet, Drive, and Nest)
Discord
CharacterAI
Snapchat
Cloudflare
Pokemon TCG Live
FuboTV
Etsy
Downdetector has logged massive spikes for all of these services over the last hour, suggesting the issue is either systemic or connected to a critical backend dependency.
This is a developing story. We’ll update as soon as more information becomes available.
Have you been impacted? Let us know which services are down for you and where you’re located in the comments below.
Update, 4:16 pm ET:
The disruption appears to be centered on Google’s cloud infrastructure. Google’s status page is available here.
In a statement to 9to5Mac, a Cloudflare spokesperson clarified that “a limited number of services at Cloudflare use Google Cloud and were impacted.” Cloudflare’s status page is available here.
In a statement to 9to5Mac, an AWS spokesperson said that none of its services are currently affected, adding that the situation does not align with what’s being reflected on DownDetector. We removed AWS from the original post. AWS’s status page is available here.