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Many Google services including Gmail and Drive were down for several hours

By Cookie Monster - on 20 Aug 2020, 9:29pm

Many Google services including Gmail and Drive were down for several hours

Google experienced a widespread outage across its services today. 

According to its G Suite Status Dashboard, several Google services experienced disruption today. The list of affected services include Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites, Google Groups, Chat, Meet, Keep and Voice. Google also confirmed some problems affecting the services such as Gmail sending issues, Meet Recording issues, and CSV user upload issues. 

Downdetector's map of the Google services outage.

Based on data from DownDetector, the service outage appeared to be global. At time of publication, all services have resumed. Google issued an update apologising for the inconvenience and reiterated that system reliability is a top priority for the company.

Source: Google (1) (2) via The Verge

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