Multiple popular online services were hit by outages on Thursday afternoon, including Spotify, Discord, Google and Amazon Web Services, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks service disruptions across the web.

Google's cloud services were down for a period of time on Thursday, along with a number of other cloud offerings. "We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products," a status page from Google showed,

A series of outages plagued various websites, services, and platforms throughout the week, ultimately affecting productivity for users around the globe.