For anyone hoping to squeeze a last few crucial projects through in these remaining days before the Christmas holidays, it’s a frustrating break in service that shows just how dependent many businesses have become on G-Suite’s tools. At the time of writing, Google services were beginning to return, though we’ll update this post as more detail emerges.
G-Suite Downtime Reported
UK downtime reporting site DownDetector flagged a surge in complaints and queries about Google services going down this morning:
Users attempting to access Google services were being presented with unexpected error messages:
And over on YouTube, it was the same story (with a reassuring worker monkey?)
Users worldwide were quick to report issues affecting YouTube, Google Meet, Gmail and Google Drive:
— Downdetector (@downdetector) December 14, 2020
— Dr Andrew Holding (@AndrewHolding) December 14, 2020
— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) December 14, 2020 Even here at Tech.co, staff reported being unceremoniously booted out of Google Meet calls then unable to access Google Drive documents. — Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) December 14, 2020 Google appears to be rectifying the issue within an hour of first reports coming in – we will update as we know more.
