Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and other services go down simultaneously in multiple countries

Not much more to update yet but we’re seeing and getting word from others that multiple

Google

services have gone down. Gmail, YouTube and Google Docs are all experiencing outages, with dozens, even hundreds, of reports we’ve seen so far coming in from across Europe, the US, India, South Africa and more.

Downtime site indicators are

showing big spikes

for the services dropping starting from around 11.30AM UK time.

Google.com itself appears to still be working, though.

So far we aren’t seeing any explanations for what is going on — please get in touch if you know something, I’m on Twitter

here

and do read direct messages and replies, no point in emailing me! Mainly, it’s an unprecedented failure for a system that has grown to be one of biggest traffic and activity drivers on the internet.

The time I realized how much I depend on Google.

Vladimir Lugovsky (@v_lugovsky)

December 14, 2020

We’ll update as we learn more.