Google Cloud Platform services take down Snapchat, Pokemon Go and other sites and services the day after Amazon Prime troubles

Google’s cloud-computing service took a dive Tuesday, knocking web sites offline and leading to widespread social-media chatter the day after Amazon’s Prime Day sale caused that company’s much-larger cloud platform to buckle.
Google was reporting at 1 p.m. that its Google App Engine, Google Cloud Networking and Google Stackdriver services were experiencing an outage.
That Google outage either took down or otherwise crippled the popular LA-based Snapchat social network, the Disc