Gmail is down again for many around the US

Following the main outage that affected YouTube, Gmail, Google Docs, and different fashionable Google companies on Monday, it seems Gmail is down but again.

The Gmail outage is primarily affecting US customers at the moment, in response to DownDetector. Gmail stopped working for many at roughly 3PM ET, with stories ramping up over the final hour. The screenshot beneath was taken from DownDetector’s web site at 5PM ET.

Google confirmed that Gmail is, in truth, down for many customers proper now. The firm wrote the following message on its Workspace weblog:

We’re conscious of an issue with Gmail affecting a major subset of customers. The affected customers are capable of entry Gmail, however are seeing error messages, excessive latency, and/or different sudden habits. We will present an replace by 12/15/20, 4:30 PM detailing once we anticipate to resolve the downside. Please notice that this decision time is an estimate and should change.

Many customers on Twitter are receiving error messages, and not less than one Android Authority staffer is having Gmail points, too.

Following Monday’s occasions, Google clarified on Twitter that the outage was attributable to an authentication system error attributable to an inside storage quota concern. It is at present not recognized if this present Gmail outage is attributable to the similar authentication concern, although we are going to control Google’s social channels for additional updates.

If you’re one in every of the unfortunate Gmail customers, there’s not a lot you are able to do proper now to repair the concern. Keep an eye fixed on Google’s Workspace standing web site for updates on when the service would possibly come again on-line.

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