14 DAY TRIAL // Google’s services went down a few minutes ago, with Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, and others currently unavailable to users in several regions.
While no specifics are available right now, Google said in a reply on Twitter to someone who reported the outage that “we’re aware of this and looking into it.” Google directs users to the G Suite Status Dashboard, but for the time being, the service only points to an issue with Google Drive.
The official Google Maps Twitter account also confirmed that “we’re aware of the issue and our team is working on a fix. Appreciate your patience.”
Google says a fix is on its way
As far as the regions that are affected go, it appears that particular issues have been reported in Russia, Central Europe, Japan, and the American East Coast. Right now, everything seems to be working correctly here in Romania and the same thing for users in Italy, Spain, and France.
Issues are also being confirmed in the United Kingdom, though services only appear to be down for some, while working correctly for others.
While Google is yet to issue a public statement to explain what is happening, several websites that monitor the status of online services indicate that there’s indeed a problem with YouTube, Gmail, and Google Maps, with the number of reports growing in certain regions of the world.
Outage Report (@ReportOutage) reveals that Gmail is having issues since 11:22 AM EST, while YouTube went down at 11:18 AM EST. Google Maps also went down 3 minutes earlier, according to the service.
We’re going to keep an eye on the status of the Google services in the next few hours, and the company is expected to address these problems very fast, so everything should return to normal as soon as possible.