The problems swept across major services and websites for an uncomfortable stretch on Thursday before recovery began kicking in.

A major Google Cloud outage on Thursday seems to have caused widespread disruptions across the internet for dozens of sites and apps.

Platforms including music streaming service Spotify and Discord were down for thousands of users following an outage at Google Cloud . According to Downdetector, there were more than 10,000 incidents of people reporting problems with Google Cloud and more than 44,