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Google server outage negatively impacts YouTube, Gmail, Snapchat
Google’s core services like YouTube, Gmail were down for users in the US on Sunday afternoon and the company blamed network congestion in east United States for the problem.
The Google Cloud outage also impacted Snapchat, which relies on the company’s cloud services, and Snapchat also said it was aware of the issue.
Google’s app status dashboard, where one can see if all the services are up and running shows Service outage for most of the company’s services.
This full list of impacted services includes Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Google Sites, Google Groups, Google Hangouts, Hangouts Chat, Hangouts Meet, Google Forms, Google Tasks, Keep and Google Voice. YouTube was also impacted by this outage.
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According to the Gsuite app dashboard, Google said that while Gmail service was restored for some users, they expect a resolution for all users in the near future.
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