Alphabet's Google said on Thursday it had resolved a brief global service disruption on its platforms that affected multiple services such as music streamer Spotify and instant messaging provider Discord.

Google says an API management issue is behind Thursday's massive Google Cloud outage, which disrupted or brought down its services and many other online platforms.

Several Google services, like Search, Cloud, as well as, Spotify, and more, were hit with a massive outage today.

Downdetector, which tracks outages based on user reports, recorded over 10,000 incidents related to Google Cloud and more than 44,000 reports for Spotify around 2:46 p.m. ET in the U.S. Additionally, users reported over 4,000 incidents each for Google Meet and Google Search, and more than 8,000 for Discord.

Google Cloud faced major disruption. What happened, which services were affected and what is the situation now, let's find out.

Google has resolved a significant global service outage that impacted major platforms like Spotify and Discord. The disruption affected Google services such as Gmail, Meet, and Drive, causing widespread user reports of service failures.