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

Google Cloud seems to be at the core of a major outage affecting popular internet apps and services on Thursday.

Google Cloud was identified by a Cloudflare representative as the cause of a massive outage that disrupted services across the internet Thursday. The widespread internet outage affected a variety of popular platforms, with users reporting problems accessing Google services, Cloudflare, Spotify, Twitch, and Discord.