Google resolves US outage affecting YouTube, Google Cloud and G Suite
- Complaints flood social media that popular apps weren’t accessible
Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Sunday it had resolved the network congestion in the eastern United States that affected services in Google Cloud, G Suite and YouTube.
Google said it would conduct an investigation of the outage and make appropriate improvements to the company’s systems to prevent or minimise future recurrence.
Earlier on Sunday, Google said it was experiencing high levels of congestion, adding that the incident began at 3:25pm EDT.
Google said it had identified the root cause, but did not elaborate.
Snapchat, which also experienced outages, said it was aware of the issue.
DownDetector.com - an outage tracking website - showed that the number of Snapchat-related complaints had peaked at more than 48,000 before falling to about 1,800 as of 9pm EDT on Sunday.