MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Gmail, YouTube and other Google services were hit with a massive outage early this morning.
Children were unable to access Google Classroom to begin their daily virtual lessons, folks logging into their Gmail received error messages.
Google’s Workspace Office Suite was down across the board, leaving people unable to to access word processing, spreadsheet, and other problems.
Google’s vast ad network that accounts for the majority of the advertising to the Internet was also affected.
The company originally said the outage was due to user problems and suggested people check their security settings. When it became clear the issue was widespread and linked to their product they issued a statement. “We’re investigating reports of an issue with Gmail. The affected users are able to access Gmail, but are seeing error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior.”
They issued the same statement for each of their product. The outage lasted approximately an hour. Most services were back online by 8 am.