Thousands of users have reported that popular apps, including Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and Character.AI, experienced outages on Thursday afternoon, according to the crowdsourced reporting platform...

The question now isn't what's wrong with what cloud service, it's what service isn't down? There's a storm in the air where I'm writing, but it's nothing like the one roiling the clouds at this time.

More than 40,000 reports came in through DownDecector of Spotify users experiencing a variety of issues, including problems with playing podcasts to playlists appearing empty.