From CNET: A massive but partial internet outage wiped out vast swaths of the online world Thursday, kicked off by issues with Google Cloud services and affecting sites including Spotify, Discord, Character.ai, Snapchat, UPS, Pokemon and many of Google's own Workspace offerings.
By about 3 hours after it began, the issue was resolved and most sites and services had returned to normal operations. Late Thursday, Google issue a preliminary incident report, tying the incident to disruptions in its API management system.
Earlier in the day, as users found themselves unable to access favorite services or necessary work tools, Google said on its Cloud status page that its engineers had "identified the root cause" and had taken steps to mitigate the issues. Still, some areas were not responding as fast as others. "Our infrastructure has recovered in all regions except us-central1," Google said.
Affected companies began noting that they were seeing recovery. By 2 p.m. PT, the Downdetector service was showing that the spikes in outages were largely past their peaks and quickly heading toward zero reports of problems. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, which is also the parent company of CNET.)
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