Google Hit by a 30-minute Service Outage Spanning GMail, YouTube, and Docs

[btarunr]

Google, was hit by a worldwide service outage from 12:00 UTC to 12:35 UTC on December 14, 2020. This affected much of the company's client-facing businesses, including GMail, YouTube, Google Docs, Google Drive, Blogger, and others. The Google Workspace Dashboard lists a number of Google services as facing a "service outage," an incident severity higher than "service disruption," (which tends to be localized). The outage potentially disrupted several businesses dependent on Google Docs and certain other Cloud services, although the extent of the outage with Google Cloud, isn't known. Interestingly, throughout the outage, we could access Google Web-Search, including all its Search features.



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[DemonicRyzen666]

Weirdly enough Embedded video are working fine during that ? !

 

[R0H1T]

throughout the outage, we could access Google Web-Search, including all its Search features.

Not sure when last I saw/heard this (couldn't) happen, it'd be something close to cataclysmic in the internet (post 2k) era!

 

[zwollerob]

problem was the authentication platform.

When you are not logged in there was no problem.

But you couldn't work when not logged in because you could not access your resources

But problems seem to be fixed

 

[Bones]

It's not just Google - It seems to be the web itself in general is dragging but the above post at least is good news.

The last time we saw something like this it amounted to a huge amount of hacking going on and was even around the same time of year too.
More business transactions going on this time of year than any other and it's like open season for hackers trying to steal all the info they can. All that could make the web slow down to a crawl at times and like everyone else I've been dealing with it for the past few weeks at least.

Pages really slow to load, videos constantly buffering, login and logout attempts dragging or even hanging, I've had it all going on during this time.

While it can't honestly be said ATM hackers are the reason(s) why in this instance, it sure looks like it based on what's happened before and I'd bet in a few weeks we'll get more info about "Why" these problems are happening and hackers will at least be a part of it.

 

[authorized]

Makes you ponder on how dependent we are on a single company.

 

[voltage]

no were near as bad as amazon's outage that occurred recently.

 

[Caring1]

Users of Google based Apps couldn't sign in, but worked if already signed in, although some crashed and froze.

 

[TheLostSwede]

It was more like 45 minutes...

 

[Paganstomp]

OH NOES! The world couldn't watch cat videos for 30 minutes!

 

[mb194dc]

Most likely related to the solar winds hack?

Google might have deliberately taken down part of their system to resolve it...?

Highly unlikely to be a coincidence me thinks when you read MS analysis of the hack:

/blog/2020/12/customer-guidance-on-recent-nation-state-cyber-attacks/

msrc-blog.microsoft.com

 

[TheLostSwede]

OH NOES! The world couldn't watch cat videos for 30 minutes!

Bit more serious than that. A lot of people rely on Google for their work email and what not.

 

[cryohellinc]

OH NOES! The world couldn't watch cat videos for 30 minutes!

Don't just based on your use case - others do far more with Google services than watch youtube whole day and play games.

 

[yotano211]

I couldn't search for my daily sailboat porn on tubeyou

 

[sepheronx]

I use both Google and Yandex services so if one goes down, I got the other. I could also use one drive as well I suppose.

For videos, only real alternative is bitchute but also lacks content I watch daily. So YouTube is unfortunately a monopoly for me.

 

[my_name_is_earl]

Expand your reliant to different outlet. Google can destroyed all your work if they choose so.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

so the practice run in preparation for the internet apocalypse was a success!