7 days ago
Google, Costco and more popular sites crash amid outage
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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.
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.'
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.
