Google Outage Causes Snapchat, Spotify to Go Down

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Published Jul. 17, 2018 4:46PM EDT

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A Google outage caused popular services and platforms like Spotify and Snapchat to become unavailable on Tuesday afternoon. BNO News reports that Google App Engine, the “web framework and cloud computing platform” that hosts web applications, began experiencing problems at around 12:20 p.m. PT. Other Google services like Google App Engine, Google Stackdriver, and Google Cloud Global Loadbalancers are also affected by the outage. Several websites and popular mobile game Pokemon Go are also down for users.

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Google Outage Causes Snapchat, Spotify to Go Down

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