
Google engineers were still investigating the root cause of the issue as of Wednesday afternoon US Pacific Time.Trivial example: the Home button that doesn't reliably take you home. There was a networking issue associated with Google Cloud Global Load Balancing, the service that automatically distributes customers' application workloads across servers or data centers to ensure no single resource is being overworked to the point of failure or degraded performance. (Data Center Knowledge) - It's unclear what exactly caused the outage, but there's a report of an incident on the Google Cloud Status Dashboard that roughly corresponds with its time frame. “Something’s not quite right, and we’re looking into it,” Spotify tweeted from the account during the service issue.

Some problems on Spotify were fixed within an hour, according to the website, which tracks outages. The two companies, along with Microsoft Corp., are the largest providers of data storage over the internet. The outage hit Google a day after extended service issues for Inc. Less than an hour after the initial reports, the spokesman said the issues “should be resolved” as of 12:48 p.m.

“We are aware of issues affecting some of our GCP services and the team is actively investigating,” a spokesman for Alphabet Inc.’s Google said in a statement. The disruption affected Google’s service that provides computing storage and data management tools for companies. (Bloomberg) - Portions of Google’s 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.
