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

At least 13 Google Cloud services experienced outages shortly before 2 p.m. ET across the U.S., Europe, Asia, and more, a Google Cloud status page stated Thursday afternoon, June 12. “We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products,” the status page reads. “Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.”

Google Cloud, which hosts a significant amount of services on the internet, has become the fastest growing part of Alphabet Inc., even though the company still makes most of its m