December 16, 2020
Google hit by second outage in two days
Google was hit by yet another outage yesterday (December 15) which saw Gmail go offline for many users for almost three hours.
Gmail, the search giant’s email service, left many
without use of their accounts with some reporting email bouncing while others
received error messages from as early as 4:30 ET.
The issues were resolved around 7:00 pm ET, Gmail
said, noting that around 18,000 users were affected at its peak.
“Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at
Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems
better,” Google said.
It was Google’s second outage in as many days after several of its
services, including Gmail, YouTube and Google Classroom, went down on Monday.
