That risk will only keep growing as the internet continues to expand and consolidate.Is Spotify down? Users have reported that the streaming service is reportedly having issues, according to Down Detector as of 3 PM GMT. The ability to run so many websites on a single platform is a convenience, for sure, but it also greatly increases the risk of losing access to digital tools that make the modern world tick. In some parts of the world, where Facebook basically is the internet (or WhatsApp is the primary messaging service), access to essential services was cut off entirely. Any businesses that rely on Facebook to operate (and there are many of them) were completely unable to run during the outage. We watched this happen recently with Facebook, which also controls a significant portion of the internet’s foundation. One slip-up or technical error can take large portions of the internet down with it. They’re all relying on the same services to operate smoothly - or at all. The problem we’re seeing more often now is that many of the web’s most popular destinations are running on the same backbone. The big connectivity conundrum - Outages for individual sites have always been a fairly common occurrence, but entire chunks of the internet going down at once isn’t quite so frequent. Another update should be provided by 2:28 p.m. ET to specify that the issue had been “partially resolved.” Google said in its update that it could not provide an ETA for when Cloud services would be fully operational once again. The page was updated again around 1:17 p.m. Diagnosis: Customers may encounter 404 errors when accessing web pages.

We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption. We will provide an update by Tuesday, 10:40 US/Pacific with current details. Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue. ET with the following message: Summary: Global: Experiencing Issue with Cloud networking Description: We are experiencing an issue with Cloud Networking beginning at Tuesday, 09:53 US/Pacific. Google Cloud’s status page was updated at 1:10 p.m. The app is actually down because Google Cloud went kaput. Big oops - The Spotify outage is only the tip of this mess of an iceberg.

Spotify down.