Why did Google go down? It ran out of storage
Why did Google go down? It ran out of storage
Google had said that it ran out of storage on Monday evening and that caused all its services to go offline.
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Source: Reuters
Google has said that the services were disrupted because of storage quota issue.
After 45 minutes, all Google services came back online.
Google suffered a global outage on Monday evening, causing inconvenience to people who use services such as Gmail, YouTube, Drive among others. The sudden disruption baffled most people, including Google that took some time to figure out what went wrong with its several services. Finally, Google has an answer. Google says the outage was caused by an “internal storage quota issue”, which is not as simple as it sounds.
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Google down: Here is why the search engine suffered global outage
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A Reuters file image of a woman walking past Google logo.
The season finale of 2020 saw a Google outage that disrupted access to applications including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive Monday evening.
The global outage brought the world together, for the second time this year, as users speculated the reason behind the disruption.
As much as people would like to blame the disruption on the year 2020, the reason why Google suffered an outage was an internal storage quota issue .
In a statement, Google said it experienced an authentication system outage for approximately 45 minutes due to an internal storage quota issue.