Amazon Web Services, Google, OpenAI and Spotify were down on Thursday after a widespread technology outage.A large number of platforms appear to have been impacted, with tens of thousands of users reporting issues on Downdetector.

An outage at Cloudflare led to several leading applications, such as Google Cloud, Discord, Spotify, Twitch, Firebase, Cursor, etc. partially shutting down. This is a developing story.

Google Cloud experienced outages today that led to disruptions for many online services. Reports of issues for Google products and others began around 2 PM ET. The company was able to restore function to its own apps, but several other businesses have continued to experience problems for some users.