SAN FRANCISCO — From Google, Character.ai and Amazon to Discord, Spotify and Etsy, multiple websites were experiencing some variation of outages on Thursday. Thousands of reports were filed for the respective sites at DownDetector, flagging the outages as they happened.

The Cloudflare status page says that a "broad" outage is impacting variety of services, which follows the trend of user reports sent to DownDectector. The San Francisco-based company said it was looking into the outage at 1:19 p.m. Central Time with updates stating the investigation into the authentication failures continues.

A major cloud outage on Thursday disrupted services across the United States, affecting platforms like Spotify, Discord, Google Meet, and Twitch. The issue was linked to technical problems with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS),