Data from the reporting website Downdetector.com indicates that the problem appeared at 7:30 PM and appears to have affected Gmail users all across the world. A number of users were observed lamenting about undeliverable emails and an inaccessible Gmail application.
The New York Times, BBC, Vice, Guardian, CNN, and BuzzFeed News are just a few of the prominent international media outlets that have become inaccessible. Websites for governments, including the UK government, as well as e-commerce companies like Amazon.com and Reddit have also been impacted.
After experiencing an outage that lasted more than three hours and affected millions of users worldwide, the email provider Gmail slowly started to resume its services late on Saturday. According to the business, it can take a few hours before all of the backlog emails can be delivered.
Data from the reporting website Downdetector.com indicates that the problem appeared at 7:30 PM and appears to have affected Gmail users all across the world. A number of users were observed lamenting about undeliverable emails and an inaccessible Gmail application.
The reporting website stated that “Downdetector only reports an event when the number of problem complaints is much higher than the average amount for that time of day.”
Google stated in a status update that its engineers had solved email delivery, but that it might still take a few hours for backlog emails to arrive. The Google engineering team is currently working through the backlog of undeliverable messages and anticipates that all messages will be delivered within the next few hours, according to the company’s dashboard for workplace status, which noted that “mitigation is currently underway and email delivery is no longer failing.”
Many customers complained that the service was unresponsive, while others claimed that their emails were not being delivered, therefore the issue appeared to have multiple facets. Some said that even though their emails were marked as delivered, the receiver never received them.
The precise cause of the outage remained unclear at the time this article was published. Google did not respond to any queries.
Due to the enormous amount of users on the site, Meta’s WhatsApp has previously gone down in the month of October, causing significant inconvenience. Since the service fell down as part of a major outage that also affected Instagram, Messenger, Oculus, and Facebook last year, this was the chat platform’s second outage. Facebook at the time, formerly known as Meta, claimed that a router configuration change was to blame for the outage.
Several news, e-commerce, social media, and governmental websites went offline in June of last year as a result of a significant worldwide outage at content delivery network (CDN) provider Fastly’s end.
The New York Times, the BBC, Vice, the Guardian, CNN, and BuzzFeed News were among the prominent international media outlets that were rendered inaccessible. Additionally hit were social networking sites like Reddit, e-commerce platforms like Amazon.com, and even government websites like the UK government’s.