Many people are not able to connect to Spotify or discord, and it’s not really your fault or your Internet connection that is having a problem. Both Spotify and Discord said that they had problems on Tuesday afternoon. Weirdly, this was not a DNS or Amazon Web Services problem.
According to the Discord team, after they restarted the streaming service to fix one problem, they had a new issue that caused a failure of the API. At 2:39 PM Eastern Time, Spotify status tweeted that things are looking much better and they did see reports indicating that a lot of people are back online. This course status page also said that work has begun on restoring service. At 4:01 PM Eastern Time, Spotify was restored, tying the issues to a glitch with a malfunctioning Google Cloud component that they had to route around.
Spotify did not go ahead and share a lot of details about this, but the Google Cloud case study does confirm that Spotify is a customer, which really explains the sudden issues for both Discord and Spotify. There was a glitchy update to a traffic director component that this court cited, as well as a timeline that matched both service’s problematic period before it was rolled back to a working version. This time it was not Amazon Web Services or a DNS problem, it was just Google.