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.

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

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