Google services go down across the globe

Updated: The majority of affected Google services seem to have returned, with the outage thought to have been no more than one hour

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Google has posted a series of messages on its Workspace Dashboard claiming that the impacted services are now up and running. The statement is the same for each, with the just the name of the service changed respectively.

Google said: "The problem with Gmail has been resolved.

"We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better."

Original article:

Multiple Google services have gone down for users across the world.

CRN tested services including Gmail, Drive, Docs, YouTube and Stadia - all of which were not working at the time of publication.

Google said that it is "aware of the problem", adding that the "majority" of customers were impacted, Sky News reported.

Reports also suggest that other services including Classroom and Meet are also out of action.

The Google Workspace Dashboard shows service outages across 25 services.

Users from around the world flooded to social media to complain about the outage.

A search for "Google" on Twitter reveals countless tweets being posted every second.

The below error message appears when trying to access the Gmail and YouTube services.

Google's search engine website appears to still be functioning normally.

No issues had been reported on the Google Cloud Status website at the time of publication.

The dropout is thought to have started just before midday in the UK.

Google's last major outage was back in August, when a host of services were down for around six hours.

YouTube and other video services also went down in November.