Google companies went darkish on Monday for customers world wide, with its hottest companies, together with Gmail, Google Drive and YouTube affected.
The outage occurred round 7 a.m. ET and appeared to be resolved for a lot of customers round half-hour later.
Google’s personal website that logs outages confirmed that the entire firm’s companies have been affected by outages.
YouTube additionally confirmed the outage in a tweet.
“We’re conscious that a lot of you’re having points accessing YouTube proper now – our staff is conscious and looking out into it,” firm’s video platform said in a tweet at 7:09 a.m. “We’ll replace you right here as quickly as we’ve got extra information.”
An hour later YouTube said it was again up and operating.
Google didn’t reply to an NBC Information request for remark.
Customers took to social media reporting the difficulty, with some complaining that the outage even affected their smart home systems.
Among the largest firms within the U.S. depend on Google companies, according to CNBC, together with Uber, Netflix and Twitter.
In June 2019, Google skilled a four-hour outage in the U.S. for a lot of of its companies, together with Google Cloud, G Suite and YouTube.