Portions of Google\u2019s cloud-computing service went down Tuesday, leading to the temporary failure of some popular applications that rely on the technology giant, including Snapchat and Spotify.<\/p>\n
The disruption affected Google\u2019s service that provides computing storage and data management tools for companies.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are aware of issues affecting some of our GCP services and the team is actively investigating,\u201d a spokesman for Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google said in a statement. Less than an hour after the initial reports, the spokesman said the issues \u201cshould be resolved\u201d as of 12:48 p.m. San Francisco time.<\/p>\n
The outage hit Google a day after extended service issues for Amazon.com Inc.<\/p>\n
The two companies, along with Microsoft Corp., are the largest providers of data storage over the internet. Some problems on Spotify were fixed within an hour, according to the website Downdetector.com, which tracks outages.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething\u2019s not quite right, and we\u2019re looking into it,\u201d Spotify tweeted from the account @SpotifyStatus during the service issue. \u201cThanks for your reports!\u201d<\/p>\n
Portions of Google\u2019s cloud-computing service went down Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":256041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[167,33897],"class_list":["post-268721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-google","tag-google-cloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268723,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268721\/revisions\/268723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}