A massive internet outage has hit the US, knocking dozens of popular websites offline.
According to Downdetector, Google, Costco, Spotify and many others went down around 10:30am ET.
Many features of Google Workspace are also experiencing issues, including Gmail, Drive, Cloud and Chat.
Users may face challenges accessing their accounts and files in the middle of a workday.
While thousands of Americans issued reports to Downdetector, the outage seems to be plaguing all parts of the globe.’
Frustrated users blasted Google on X, with one saying: ‘The popular search engine and backbone of many people’s online lives has received numerous Down Detector reports today, indicating that something is wrong online lives.’
Google has acknowledged the outage, saying: ‘We’re currently experiencing elevated latency and error rates for several Cloud services in the us-east1 region.
‘Our initial investigation points to a hardware infrastructure failure as the likely cause.’
A massive internet outage has hit the US, knocking dozens of popular websites offline
Google noted that the incident is also affecting Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Support, Google Compute Engine, Identity and Access Management, Secret Manager and Virtual Private Cloud.
‘All other zones in us-east1 are currently operating normally,’ the tech giant added.
‘Our engineers have recovered the failed hardware and are currently recovering the network control plane in the affected zones.’
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