Google has been having a tough time this week with service outages. It has now had two days, perhaps even three days relying on who you ask, of main downtime.
On Monday, Google’s authentication system went down for about an hour, taking down Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Docs, and most different Google providers. Google blamed the outage on “an inner storage quota concern,” which sounds lots like Google ran out of space for storing.
On Tuesday, Gmail began having issues once more, which Google’s status dashboard described as “a important subset of customers… seeing error messages, excessive latency, and/or different surprising conduct.” Many reviews, like this one from TechCrunch, stated emails had been immediately bouncing. Rival e-mail service ProtonMail even says some emails despatched to Gmail have been “completely misplaced” and can must be despatched once more.
Google’s Gmail standing dashboard says any issues had been resolved yesterday (12/15) simply earlier than 10pm ET, however this morning there are nonetheless reviews of disrupted service within the feedback on DownDetector. Particularly, customers who entry Gmail via third-party purchasers appear to be having issues.
One attention-grabbing drawback for automated methods is that the error message Gmail was sending Tuesday was “550-5.1.1 The e-mail account that you simply tried to achieve doesn’t exist.” This is not a “Gmail is briefly down” message however as a substitute a everlasting error message indicating an e-mail deal with that’s not in service. Many mailing record applications and automatic methods can be proactive about culling useless addresses from the database, so customers affected by the issues yesterday may need been robotically, silently faraway from some lists.
Right this moment, Google’s Workspace standing dashboard says every little thing is ok.
