Alphabet's Google said on Thursday it had resolved a brief global service disruption on its platforms that affected multiple services such as music streamer Spotify and instant messaging provider Discord.

Popular online services across the globe were disrupted Thursday due to ongoing issues at Google Cloud.Tens of thousands of users of Spotify, Discord and other platforms began noticing issues with their services early in the afternoon,

Google Cloud experienced outages today that led to disruptions for many online services. Reports of issues for Google products and others began around 2 PM ET. The company was able to restore function to its own apps, but several other businesses have continued to experience problems for some users.