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

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.

Google Cloud seems to be at the core of a major outage affecting popular internet apps and services on Thursday.