Alphabet's Google Cloud was down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 11,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Google Cloud,

A significant internet disruption affected users on Thursday, causing a number of high-traffic websites to go offline.Several well-known

If you're noticing that some websites or services are running slowly (or not at all), you're not alone. There are widespread outages affecting services across the web, including Google, Spotify, and Pokémon Go.

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

Google Cloud services were down and are affecting other sites, according to Replit and Cloudflare.

At just after 2:15 p.m. ET, we saw huge spikes in Down Detector reports for Spotify, and it's been having issues ever since, with reports continuing to pour in long after the initial outage. Since then, it's been a steady decline though its taken longer ...

Down Detector showed a spike of user-reported issues for the popular IT tool, but it was far from alone. User-reported issues for major sites and services flooded in. Sites like Spotify, Google, Snapchat, Discord, Nintendo, Character.ai, and more all saw spikes on Down Detector. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.)

Numerous websites and online services, including Google services, Spotify, DoorDash, and more, are reportedly encountering outages Thursday afternoon amid what appears to be a widespread outage. Outage tracker Downdetector shows dozens of sites and services are seeing increased rates of user-reported issues starting shortly after 2 p.