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Due to a major technical problem in Google Cloud on Thursday, millions of users around the world faced problems. Major services like Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, Twitch, Shopify, and AI company Anthropic were affected by this outage. Apart from this, Google's services like Gmail, Google Meet, YouTube, and Google Search also came to a standstill for some time.

In this case, it was told on the status website of Google Cloud that this problem was caused by a glitch in the Identity and Access Management Service. The company said that their engineers are busy fixing the issue and services have been restored in some locations, although the impact remains in many places.

Google started the repair process.

After hundreds of complaints come to the fore, Google said in its latest update that our team has identified the root of the problem and has started the repair process. Google said that services have been largely fixed in all locations except the 'US-Central 1' region of America. However, many users are still facing problems with different services.

These services were completely affected.

According to the information given by Google Cloud, many services were affected by this technical problem, including products like Agent Assist, Cloud Firestore, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Dialogflow, Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text and Vertex AI Search. At present, Google has not said when the services will be fully restored.

44000 complaints for Spotify
According to the Downdetector website, more than 44,000 complaints were registered about Spotify in the US at around 2:46 pm (ET), while more than 10,000 reports came about Google Cloud and more than 4,000 about Google Meet and Google Search. Not only this, more than 8,000 users also reported problems with Discord.

Cloudflare also confirmed the outage
Cloudflare also confirmed an outage on Thursday, but the company clarified that its services were fully fine and the problem was related to a glitch in Google Cloud.

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