Google Search, YouTube, Gmail Services Restored In UK, US After Suffering Minor Outage
The complaints of outages peaked around 9pm (Eastern Time) and the services were restored soon after, according to Downdetector, the platform which tracks online outages.
The report also pointed out that even though the outage was reported globally, users in the UK and US region were impacted the most. “During the issue, users connecting to Workspace services from the UK region may have experienced connectivity issues,” google said.
In its mini-incident report google said that the ‘root cause of the issue was a loss of power to networking equipment in the london data centre’. "Gmail, google Calendar, google Chat, google Docs, google Drive, google Meet and google Workforce connecting to Workspace services from the UK region may experience connection issues for up to 40 minutes," the talk.