Gmail, YouTube, other Google services suffer brief worldwide outage Work and school accounts for tens of millions of users were suspended for about 45 minutes. By Hannah DenhamThe Washington Post Share A host of Alphabet services were knocked offline Monday in a worldwide outage spanning the tech giant’s major platforms – including YouTube, Google Drive and Gmail – suspending work and school accounts for tens of millions of users. Google blamed an “internal storage quota issue” for the outage that its workplace status dashboard showed began at 6:55 a.m. Eastern time for all of its listed services: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Sites, Google Groups, Google Hangouts, Google Chat, Google Meet, Google Vault, Currents, Google Forms, Google Cloud Search, Google Keep, Google Tasks, Google Voice, Admin Console, Google Analytics, App Maker, Google Maps, Blogger, Google Sync for Mobile and Classroom. Google search functions were not affected.