Incident Report: Spotify Outage on March 8, 2022 | Spotify Engineering
On March 8, we experienced a global outage triggered by issues in a cloud-hosted service discovery system used at Spotify. We were made aware of issues with login at 18:12 UTC / 13:12 ET and started implementing fixes to critical systems at 18:39 UTC / 13:39 ET. This outage affected our users and we apologize for the inconvenience it may have caused. Our service has now fully recovered.
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