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

Google Cloud seems to be at the core of a major outage affecting popular internet apps and services on Thursday.

NEW YORK — Popular online services across the globe were disrupted Thursday due to ongoing issues at Google Cloud. Tens of thousands of users of Spotify, Discord and other platforms began noticing issues with their services early in the afternoon, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages.