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’s first public update to its status page came well after a message from Replit CEO Amjad Masad at 2:34PM ET, when he tweeted, “Google cloud is having an outage and that’s taking Replit down. We’re working with them to bring it back up ASAP.”

Alphabet's Google Cloud and music streaming platform Spotify were down for tens of thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 13,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Google Cloud and more than 27,