Gmail and Google Drive hit by worldwide outages
Users worldwide reported Gmail and Google Drive outages on Friday morning, according to Down Detector.
Sending and saving emails, connecting to the server, and even logging onto the Gmail website and Google Drive were all affected by the disruption, which has since been resolved.
“Gmail is experiencing issues with attachment functionality,” Google said in a summary of the issue on Google Workspace Status Dashboard on Friday morning.
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“Sending emails without attachments remains functional. Receiving emails with attachments remains unaffected.”
It also confirmed “Google Drive is experiencing service degradation.”
“Users may see degraded experience while performing upload operation.
“Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.”
There were no workarounds while Google engineers investigated the issue, which was fixed later on Friday morning.
“The recent fix implemented by our engineering teams has been successful in fully resolving the issue,” Google confirmed.
Google confirmed it would release the root cause of the outages in a preliminary incident report.
There are about 1.8 billion global Gmail users, but the impact of the outage is at this stage unclear.
Originally published on 7NEWS
