Multiple Google products and third party services were taken offline on Sunday night
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) suffered a significant outage on Sunday night that lasted nearly three hours, knocking offline services including G Suite, YouTube and Google Cloud.
The issue was first noted on the company’s cloud status dashboard at 8.25pm BST on 2 June as a Google Compute Engine problem.
Shortly, however, reports of problems with Google Cloud, YouTube and more started hitting Twitter and by 8.59pm, the dashboard acknowledged it was a « wider network issue ».
By 12.09am on 3 June, the issue was resolved but little detail is available as to what happened beyond « high levels of network congestion in the eastern USA, affecting multiple services in Google Cloud, G Suite and YouTube ».
However, someone claiming to work on Google Cloud (but currently on holiday) posted a message on Hacker News saying: « It’s disrupting everything, including unfortunately the tooling we usually use to communicate across the company about outages.
