Google's cloud services were down for a period of time on Thursday, along with a number of other cloud offerings. "We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products," a status page from Google showed,

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

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.