India, June 13 -- Spotify, Vimeo, Snapchat, FuboTV, UPS, Rocket League, Discord, Etsy, and Character AI experienced outages across the United States on Thursday afternoon. While the exact cause has not been confirmed, data from DownDetector shows that both Google Cloud and Cloudflare experienced disruptions. Since many of the affected platforms relied on one or both of these cloud providers, the outages are likely connected.

Several core Google services also experienced disruptions, including

Gmail

Google Calendar

Google Chat

Google Cloud Search

Google Docs

Google Drive

Google Meet

Google Tasks

Google Voice

A bit of YouTube

At 3:09 p.m., Google provided an update on its status page: "Our engineers are continuing to mitigate th...