Alphabet's Google Cloud was down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 11,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Google Cloud,

The problems swept across major services and websites for an uncomfortable stretch on Thursday before recovery began kicking in.

NEW YORK — Popular online services across the globe were disrupted Thursday due to ongoing issues at Google Cloud. Tens of thousands of users of Spotify, Discord and other platforms began noticing issues with their services early in the afternoon, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages.