Google Search, Gmail, YouTube and other services suffer outage worldwide

As per the latest update, YouTube and all other Google services including Gmail, Meet are restored to normal status.

Google's services such as G Drive, Meet, Gmail, YouTube, Search, Calendar, Maps, and others including enterprise edition too, suffered major outages around the world.

Several users couldn't access Google services for more than an hour. As per DownDetector.com, several areas on the US east coast, India, Brazil, Japan, and entire Europe faced the major brunt.

Google's service status dashboard marked with pink light (below) confirms the service outage. A major spike occurred at 5:25 PM and the company finally fixed the issue in a couple of hours.

Google Services Status Dashboard (screen-grab)

"We're aware of a problem with Google Maps (other services) affecting a majority of users. The affected users are unable to access Google Maps. We will provide an update by 12/14/20, 5:42 PM detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change," reads the Google Maps dashboard.

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The company had placed the same statement for all the services for both consumer and enterprise Workspace on the official status dashboard.

Google's YouTube was the first to release the official statement on Twitter. Later in the evening, it revealed the video streaming service is back to normal.

NEW UPDATE:

As per the latest status on the dashboard, all Google services including Gmail, Calendar, Map, Google Meet are being restored in phases across the world. The status on the dashboard is now marked green, meaning the services have resumed.

"The problem with Gmail (and other services) has been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better," the company said.

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