Google services suddenly gone down on Monday evening, impacting hundreds of users. Almost all the services were disrupted at a time Gmail, Google Search, YouTube, and Drive. This is the 2nd time google services facing issue, but it seems to be more than the last one, seemingly started around 5 pm IST today. You can track the downtime and the issues through Downdetector,almost over 40,000 outage cases from around the world nearly 10 minutes after the outage began. YouTube and Gmail, Google Search, Google Nest were down globally.
A Google spokeswoman said on Monday that the outage affected the company’s system that authenticates login credentials for users of its wide array of services. Some how traced that the problem was with internal servers and the issues was with the recent outage announced changes to cloud-storage quotas within certain Google products, the spokeswoman said. The outage began about 6:45 a.m. Eastern Time and lasted roughly an hour, the company said. Google has apologized to all the affected users and in a statement pledged to “conduct a thorough follow up review to ensure this problem cannot recur in the future.”
The problems affected services used by billions of people world-wide, which are being relied upon more than ever as people have stayed home on and off for the better part of a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Remote work and learning have left businesses and individuals more dependent than ever on online services, for which Google is widely used. Google’s Gmail is one of the most popular email clients globally, and the company’s Workspace office tools, formerly known as G Suite and a competitor to Microsoft Corp.’s Office, are popular among businesses and institutions.
Anyone who tried to open a Google Document or respond to an urgent Gmail message will have felt a sense of dread when the message came back: "Please try reloading this page, or coming back to it in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience". Google crisis may have been brief - it took services offline for less than an hour - but it was an unnerving reminder of just how dependent millions of people have become on services in the cloud.
The outage started shortly before noon UK time, lasting more than half an hour before services were restored. Users around the world reported problems with Gmail, Google Drive, the Android Play Store, Maps and more. Google's search engine, however, remained unaffected by the problems affecting its other services. Google said the problem hit its authentication system, which is used for logging in and similar functions, and lasted about 45 minutes. Users were still able to access the websites' landing pages in "incognito mode", which does not store a log of the users' browsing activity.
