For an uncomfortable stretch on Thursday, a self-inflicted outage wiped out popular websites and services, including Google's own.

Google Cloud seems to be at the core of a major outage affecting popular internet apps and services on Thursday.

On Thursday afternoon, many people with smart home setups connected to Google Home / Nest, or who are trying to stream music on Spotify, are coming up empty. All I’m seeing when I try to open the Spotify website is a message that says “Audiences in Jwt are not allowed,