Late last night, Google Cloud was found to have encountered an outage that has rendered a large number of its services inaccessible. Google's search service and Google Cloud Suite were among the affected services, but were fixed shortly after the issue was discovered.
However, there are many other digital services that rely on Google Cloud that have experienced the same issue, and need more time to recover from this problem.
According to DownDetector, applications such as Spotify, Discord, Character.ai, Pokemon Go and Pokemon TCG have been affected by the problem, and it has taken several hours to restore. OpenAI and Amazon Web Services have also said that their customers will have problems accessing their services due to the outage.
However, access to these websites and services appears to have been restored, and can be used as usual.