Google Drive, Gmail hit by global outage including India; here’s what users reported
13th March 2019
As per a message posted on Google’s GSuite Status Dashboard, both Google Drive and Gmail are experiencing what it referred to as a “service disruption.”
Help! Gmail is down and I’m being forced to chill out! pic.twitter.com/zXZuLOrSwO
— Chris Sacca (@sacca) March 13, 2019
The official message said, “We’re investigating reports of an issue with Gmail,” the message read. “We will provide more information shortly. The affected users are able to access Gmail, but are seeing error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior.”
Gmail is having issues since 10:08 PM ESThttps://t.co/vvOkRr96MSRT if it’s down for you as well #gmaildown pic.twitter.com/TtPEx6Er3V
— Outage.Report (@ReportOutage) March 13, 2019
Gmail going down globally pic.twitter.com/qGOx7akcEs
— Urthboy (@urthboy) March 13, 2019
Google Engineer #1: “What’s this red button for”?Google Engineer #2: “Don’t touch thaaaat” (lunges at Engineer #1)Google Engineer #1: “Ooops, too late”#gmaildown #googledrivefail pic.twitter.com/yUrjHyB4Vm
— Trevor Young (@trevoryoung) March 13, 2019
Google had a similar status message for Google Drive.
The services still appear to be up for some users (Gmail was working for CNET staff New York and Australia but not for one of our reporters in San Francisco). But the outage is widespread and appears to cover North and South America, Europe and Asia.
This is not the first outage with services provided by Google this year. In January, a short outage had also occurred which affected users in some parts of Europe, parts of North America, South America as well as Asia. Users from all across the world had reported a 404 error when they tried to access their Gmail.
It is still not clear as to why the outages occurred as more details are awaited.
Source: financialexpress.com