Spotify is experiencing issues, which appear to be causing some users to be unable to use the music streaming platform. At just after 2:15 p.m. ET, we saw huge spikes in Down Detector reports for Spotify. While the music streamer hasn't commented on the outage yet, we can't help but wonder if the ongoing issues with Google Cloud could be connected.

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Google Cloud went down Thursday—and it took some of your favorite apps with it. Spotify, Discord, and several other services stopped working for thousands of users around 3 p.m. Eastern, according to Downdetector.