Many other services affected including Spotify, Snapchat and YouTube due to major technical glitch in Google Cloud

Millions of users worldwide experienced difficulties as there was a severe technical glitch in Google Cloud on Thursday. Some of the major services to be impacted by this glitch included Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, Twitch, Shopify and artificial intelligence firm Anthropic. Apart from this, Google's own services like Gmail, Google Meet, YouTube and Google Search also came to a standstill for some time.

In the case, it was reported on the status website of Google Cloud that it was due to a glitch in the Identity and Access Management Service that this issue arose. The company reported that its engineers are actively working on fixing it and services have already been restored in certain areas, though some of its effects are still present in many areas.

Following reports of hundreds of grievances received, Google in its recent update indicated that its team has located the source of the problem and initiated the process of rectification. Google indicated that services in all places but the 'US-Central1' region of America are largely restored now. But users are currently experiencing trouble in various services.

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 told when the services will be fully restored.

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 reports came about Google Meet and Google Search. Not only this, more than 8,000 users reported problems with Discord.

Along with this, Cloudflare also confirmed an outage on Thursday, but the company clarified that their services were completely fine and this problem was related to the glitch in Google Cloud.