A massive Google Cloud outage messed up Google Home, Spotify, and other services
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Summary
An outage at Google Cloud impacted services including Spotify, Google Home, Cloudflare, Twitch, Snapchat, Anthropic, Shopify and Discord on Thursday.
Initial reports from trackers such as Downdetector and ThousandEyes showed the extent of the problem, but the Google Cloud status page did not initially show any issues.
Following initial reports, Google Cloud reported the issue related to the Identity and Access Management Service, which was impacting several of its services, but most services are now back to normal.
Google Cloud is a significant player in cloud services, ranking third behind Amazon and Microsoft in terms of market share, and this is not the first time its servers have experienced outages.