Many popular platforms such as Spotify, Discord, and Wikipedia have suffered collective failures recently, resulting in users not being able to access and use them normally. The problem was first with Spotify, where Downdetector listed more than 150,000 reports that users were facing difficulties logging in and loading their music library. Discord, Wikipedia and a few other services have also faced a slew of issues in the past half hour or so.
While these issues are all happening at the same time, it doesn’t look like they’re all related. Discord’s status log reports that an API bug was the root cause of its outage. As for Spotify and other affected services, there has been no official announcement yet. Although services such as AWS and Cloudflare received a spike in user reports on Downdetector, neither service experienced an outage, according to its official dashboard, which was later confirmed by Amazon.
After hours of downtime, the culprit that caused Spotify, Discord, and a few other sites to go down has been discovered — Google Cloud. As The Verge reports, this time it was Google Cloud’s fault, as the platform pushed an update to its Traffic Director that was causing multiple website outages.
At present, the Spotify and Discord websites have been restored, and some other websites will have to wait for a while. Overall, user reports on Downdetector are down across all previously affected sites and services.
