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Multiple popular online services were hit by outages on Thursday afternoon, including Spotify, Discord, Google and Amazon Web Services, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks service disruptions across the web.
Any major problems with providers like this will result in lots of your favorite online sites and apps going down. Down Detector on Thursday saw user-reported issues at Twitch, Gmail, Discord, Nintendo Switch Online, Spotify, and dozens more platforms. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.)
The massive internet outage on Wednesday where Google Cloud Platforms, Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare saw significant downtime was linked to a cyberattack by social media. , US Buzz News - Times N
Social media users are claiming that the massive internet outage on Wednesday, which resulted in a Cloudflare and GCP downtime, was due to a cyberattack.
UPDATE: June 13, 2025, 10:45 a.m ET — The massive internet outage that struck Thursday afternoon appeared to be fully resolved. Read more about the possible cause of the disruption. Google Cloud ...