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Is Google Still Down? What We Know About the Gmail, Workspace and Drive Outage

In the early afternoon on July 18, a partial outage affected Google services including Gmail, Google Drive, Google Workspace, Gemini, and Nest, impacting users worldwide.
According to Google Cloud status updates, the initial investigation points to a hardware infrastructure failure as the likely cause, the company said.
According to outage tracking data, Down Detector revealed a partial outage affecting Google services and also impacting Zoom, Discord, Shopify, Spotify, and Pokémon Go.
`The issue has been mitigated for all affected users`, Google said, adding services were restored for most users by 2:30 PM EST.
The outage underscores vulnerabilities of centralized cloud infrastructure, and ensuring resilience and contingency planning for such services is increasingly critical.

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Daily Mirror

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Users unable to access Google services amid huge outage

Gmail, Google Drive and Workspace users were hit with problems this afternoon as the Google services were hit by a mass outage

21 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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Is Google Still Down? What We Know About the Gmail, Workspace and Drive Outage

It appears Google has resolved the incident that caused a short-lived, but widespread outage.

21 days ago·New York, United States

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Financial Express

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Google down: Gmail, Drive, and Gemini face outage, Cloud-linked apps also affected

According to Downdetector, thousands of users began experiencing issues at the same time. Around 44% of them reported endless loading screens, 30% were unable to log into Gmail, while 26% couldn’t even run a simple Google search.

21 days ago·Uttar Pradesh, India

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Google hit with huge outage as Gmail, Drive & Workspace 'down'

GOOGLE is facing outages as users report delays and errors across a number of services. The service reported that the incident began at 3.10pm and is affecting Gmail, Google Drive, Google Meet and Google Workspace. GettyA number of Google services are experiencing problems[/caption] GettyIt is primarily affecting the Workspace products including Gmail and Google Docs[/caption] According to DownDetector, reports of issues reached a peak at around…

21 days ago·New York, United States

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