SAN FRANCISCO — From Google, Character.ai and Amazon to Discord, Spotify and Etsy, multiple websites were experiencing some variation of outages on Thursday. Thousands of reports were filed for the respective sites at DownDetector, flagging the outages as they happened.

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.

The Cloudflare status page says that a "broad" outage is impacting variety of services, which follows the trend of user reports sent to DownDectector. The San Francisco-based company said it was looking into the outage at 1:19 p.m. Central Time with updates stating the investigation into the authentication failures continues.