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

Google Cloud outage affected 40 locations, and even Cloudflare Spotify, Discord and more went down, as were some Workspace apps Google blamed a dodgy update for the outage, promises to "do better" A number of popular websites went offline yesterday after Google Cloud experienced a major outage which saw users unable to access the likes of Spotify,

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,