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.
In a statement, a Google spokesperson told India Today Tech that its services experience what is an authentication system outage for about 45 minutes due to the said internal storage quota issue. To simplify this, the Google spokesperson explained, the internal tools that the company uses to allocate sufficient storage to each service that handles authentication did not work as expected. After the storage limit was exhausted, the s
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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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.
When Google services like Gmail and YouTube went down, lights in this man s house failed
Google services suffered a global outage today for about an hour that made connected devices go offline.
Shubham Verma | December 14, 2020 | Updated 19:49 IST
Highlights
A man was sitting in dark because his Google Home-controlled lights stopped working.
Times like this remind us to lessen our dependence on the internet devices.
Google services, including YouTube and Gmail, went offline for about an hour Monday evening leaving a large fraction of internet users stranded. It was not just a minor glitch but a global outage that not only made Google services inaccessible on the web but also impacted smart devices, such as Nest speakers. The impact was so severe that a man on Twitter has claimed he had to sit in a dark room because of the outage. This might sound weird to you but this is entirely possible, considering how the internet has crept into almost everything that we use today. Before