Google Cloud Platform, others experiencing widespread outage, live updating, Nov. 16, 2021

Websites and other services including Spotify, Discord, Snapchat and Etsy are coming back online after a Google Cloud Platform networking issue caused a global outage Tuesday, according to The Verge.

Spotify, Discord, and others are coming back online after a brief Google Cloud outagehttps://t.co/8ErDw7Zcet pic.twitter.com/SNJMNOtvjg
— The Verge (@verge) November 16, 2021

The Google Cloud Platform and thousands of other services began experiencing widespread outages Tuesday afternoon, according to reports.

DownDetector, which tracks major outages worldwide, said affected services and companies included Facebook, Lowe’s, EA, Shopify, Cloudfare, Soundtrap, Google and Fitbit.

One report said as many as 30,000 sites were affected.

30K Websites Down After Google Cloud Outage https://t.co/RUaGEhDckT
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 16, 2021

There were reports that at least two services might be involved.

is partially resolved Customers will be unable to apply changes to their load balancers until the issue is fully resolved. We do not have an ETA for full resolution at this point. We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2021-11-16 11:28 US/Pacific with current details 2/3
— GCP Incidents (@GCP_Incidents) November 16, 2021

Google provided a link to its status dashboard to monitor details.

We are aware of an issue with Google Cloud Platform. See our status dashboard for details: https://t.co/eEsJOYU7Xg
— Google Cloud (@googlecloud) November 16, 2021

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