Update (05/05/2023 22:50): We have added information about the reasons for the interruption of services (water leak in a European data center). You can find the details at the end of the article.
Update (05/05/2023 23:08): Services gradually begin to return to normal.
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No, not your internet connection. Google stopped working in many countries around the world this Friday. including Spain. The problems don’t seem to be specific to Alphabet’s browser. Other services like the Mountain View giant’s YouTube video platform are also failing.
Downdetector.es website, which displays the status of services in real time based on user inputs, reports the problems experienced by these services. More than 10,000 people have reported bugs on Google, and nearly 3,000 have done the same for YouTube.
Google, YouTube and other services are down
As usual in such scenarios, many users Twitter to share your experience. While scrolling through the messages published in the last minutes, we see that there are not only those who talk about the decline of the search engine and the video platform. as well as other services.
Pages that are currently not working, at least in Spanish territory, include the Gmail email service and the Spotify music streaming platform. You may even notice a certain slowdown when uploading multimedia content on Twitter.
Downdetector reflects the fall of Google and YouTube this Friday
At the moment, the source of the problem affecting the operation of the services mentioned above is unknown. In the Google specific case, the company feedback on bugs We don’t know when it will be fixed as it is an issue that users are experiencing.
Taking a look at the Google Cloud status page gives us some insight into the current status of the company. Especially in the European region there are malfunctions in multiple modules, so they are probably working normally in other parts of the world.
Screenshot, Google Cloud status page
At the time of this writing, the Cloud Filestore, Google Cloud Bigtable, Google Cloud SQL, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Persistent Disk modules are not working or partially working. Let’s remember that Google Cloud is not only used by Google services, it is the backbone of many other services.
We are talking about the cloud computing service of the American company they are working on. thousands of services from other companies cloud-based (or hybrid) ecosystems. For operational and security reasons, its operation is zoned and supported by data centers located in different parts of the planet.
Update: the source of the problem
We’ve been investigating issues with Google services over the past few hours and we have more information about these issues. The epicenter of the failures is in one of the European data centers, specifically located in Paris. As the company explains, “water infiltration” into the area caused several clusters to malfunction, affecting the operation of many services as a result.
As we know, water and electronic components are not good friends. “Customers may not have access to available cloud resources in the europe-west9-a region,” Google said. Minutes later, the restoration of services began, but as this is a gradual process we may have to wait to see if they are up to 100% again.
Images: solen faysa | Screenshot of Google Cloud status page
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