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Google providers suffered a widespread outage that lasted over an hour Monday, sparking complaints from customers around the globe that they could not entry their e mail. The drawback seems to have affected Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Hangouts and Google Meet.
According to DownDetector, the outage started round 6:25 a.m. ET (3:25 a.m. PT) and continued for over an hour. Google’s personal Workspace Status Dashboard confirmed all its providers to be struggling outages. But Google Search appeared to nonetheless be working, as did Chrome. Around 7:40 a.m. ET (4:40 a.m. PT) providers began coming again on-line.
Google’s personal assertion reveals the timings to be totally different, nonetheless. According to a press release from a Google spokesperson, the outage started at 3:47 a.m. PT and lasted round 45 minutes. The outage was not brought on by a cyberattack, however by “an internal storage quota issue.”
“Services requiring users to log in experienced high error rates during this period,” stated the spokesperson in a press release. “All services are now restored. We apologize to everyone affected, and we will conduct a thorough follow-up review to ensure this problem cannot recur in the future.”
The outage was a tough begin to the week not only for Google, however for all the employees, college students and companies around the globe that depend on Google Services.
The hashtag #GoogleDown was trending on Twitter, with folks complaining of being unable to do their jobs, full assignments or meet necessary deadlines. Other customers mused over our collective dependency on Google, questioning if it was maybe, in actual fact, dangerous.
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