Amazon Web Services, Google, OpenAI and Spotify were down on Thursday after a widespread tech outage.
A large number of sites appear to be impacted, with tens of thousands of users reporting issues on Downdector.com, a website that tracks outages. Reports ticked up around 2 p.m EST.
Cloudflare, which provides services to several major companies impacted by the outage, did not immediately reply to CBS News’ request for information.
On its website Thursday afternoon, Cloudflare said that a number of its services were suffering intermittent failures and that it was investigating the matter.
By 3:12 p.m EST, the global cloud company said services were starting to recover. “We still expect to see intermittent errors across the impacted services as systems handle retried and caches are filled,” it stated in an update.
Spotify had the most outages, with 46,000 users reporting issues as of 3 p.m. EST on Thursday. Google Cloud also saw major disruptions, with more than 13,000 reports on Downdetector.
Other sites impacted include:
- Discord
- Google Meet
- Snapchat
- Character AI
- YouTube
- Box
- Etsy
- Pokémon Trading Card Game
- Cloudflare
- MailChimp
- UPS
- FuboTV
- Rocket League
- Verizon
- Vimeo
- Shopify
- HighLevel
- Paramount +
- Claude