Brief Outage Impacts Google Cloud, Snap, Spotify

Share post:

Major social media platforms such as Snapchat, Spotify experienced a brief global outage before going online again.

Google said technical problems in its cloud network, which has Etsy, Spotify and Snapchat as customers, were partially restored shortly after thousands of users from around the world flagged it on downdetector.com, an outage tracking website.

Google Cloud’s dashboard also showed that services such as cloud developer tools, cloud consoles and cloud engines encountered glitches.

Spotify said it was fully aware of “some issues right now and are checking them” after more than 50,000 users flagged the music streaming platform on Downdetector, but these have already been resolved, according to the website.

Fastly, the cloud company that encountered a major global internet outage in June, reported that it had found increasing bugs stemming from a “common cloud provider which was not related to Fastly’s edge cloud platform.”

Tuesday’s brief disruption came after a six-hour global outage by Meta Platforms Inc, better known as Facebook, caused by faulty configuration changes to the social media giant’s routers.

For more information, read the original story in Reuters.

SUBSCRIBE NOW

Related articles

Meta accused of trying to discredit researchers

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been accused of discrediting university researchers in Brazil who reported fraudulent...

US Surgeon General wants social media warning labels

US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has called for smoking-style warning labels to be placed on social media platforms...

Meta’s use of public posts and images to train AI meets with backlash over privacy concerns

Meta's recent move to use public posts and images from Facebook and Instagram for training its AI tools...

Canadian schools sue social media giants over alleged harm to children

Five Ontario school boards along with two private schools have joined lawsuits that claim that social media platforms...

Become a member

New, Relevant Tech Stories. Our article selection is done by industry professionals. Our writers summarize them to give you the key takeaways