Google Cloud failure made Gmail, YouTube, Discord, Snapchat and other services unavailable

On June 2, Google announced a massive failure in its Cloud Platform platform, with some sites and applications have stopped working in some regions.

At the same time, users have problems with access not only to their own services, such as Gmail, G Suite and YouTube, but also to Discord, Snapchat, and other applications that depend on Google infrastructure. The problem mainly affected users in the US and Europe.

So far, there is no detailed information what exactly happened and caused the failure. Google only reported that it was “related to a larger network problem”. A Google representative said that the problem related to the “high level of network congestion” in the eastern part of the United States, and that company believes that it will address “root cause” of the problem, and the resumption of customer service will occur soon.

In fact, the work was restored only on the night of June 3. What is more, company did not clarify details of what happened, confining itself to saying that a thorough study would be carried out followed by the release of “relevant improvements”.

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Although such interruptions are rarely long, they have happened to Google more than once in recent months. For example, last October, were noted issues with YouTube services, and Google’s shared services were disabled in November due to routing problems. At the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, Nest also experienced a number of interruptions.

Source: https://www.engadget.com