Following Google Cloud's recent widespread outage, which took sites like Spotify, Cloudflare and Discord offline, the company released its detailed report sharing exactly why it failed customers. The company says the root cause was a code issue in Service Control – part of the company's API management and policy checking system.

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

An outage at Cloudflare led to several leading applications, such as Google Cloud, Discord, Spotify, Twitch, Firebase, Cursor, etc. partially shutting down. This is a developing story.