Spotify And Discord Back After Outage: Spotify and Discord are back online after outages linked to Google Cloud
Google Cloud problems disconnected both services this afternoon. If you can’t connect to Spotify or Discord, then no, it’s not just you or your internet connection
Both services acknowledged problems on Tuesday afternoon. However, this time, the culprit doesn’t appear to be any kind of massive DNS or Amazon Web Services (AWS) problem
Sure, Apple’s event servers are still operational, and we haven’t lost access to security cameras or robot vacuums, but the coincidence is still unusual
According to Discord, after restarting its streaming service to fix one problem, a new issue caused a failure of its API, and as of about 30 minutes ago, they were still investigating
The Spotify Status account tweeted at 1:22PM ET that “we’re looking into it” but didn’t offer any other details about what’s going on
As of 2:39PM ET, Spotify Status tweeted that things are looking much better, and we’ve seen reports indicating that most people are back online
Discord’s status page noted that “work has begun on restoring service,” and as of about 4:01PM ET, said service has been restored, tying the issues to a glitch with a malfunctioning Google Cloud component that they had to route around
Spotify didn’t go into detail, but a case study posted by Google Cloud confirms they’re also a customer and that may explain the sudden issues for both services