Google is dealing with outages among the services that use its Cloud platform.

Those services include YouTube, Gmail, Discord, Snapchat, Nest and others.

It is mostly affecting users on the east coast, but DownDetector shows outages Los Angeles, San Francisco and in parts of Europe as well.

“We continue to experience high levels of network congestion in the eastern USA, affecting multiple services in Google Cloud, G Suite and YouTube. Users may see slow performance or intermittent errors. Our engineering teams have completed the first phase of their mitigation work and are currently implementing the second phase, after which we expect to return to normal service," Google said in a statement.

Google said it will provide an update at 4 p.m. PT. </s> A Google outage is affecting many services Sunday afternoon, including YouTube, Gmail, Snapchat and many others.

According to the Google Cloud Platform dashboard , there is an issue with the Google Compute Engine, affecting social media apps and websites. The issues started around 3:25 EST.

Users primarily on the east coast of the United States were reporting issues with Google and apps that use Google Cloud, such as Snapchat and Discord, according to downdetector.com . But people in other regions of the U.S. and Europe are experiencing issues as well.

Google nor any of the affected sites and apps have said when services will be back to normal.

This story is breaking and will be updated. </s> • On Sunday, sites that use Google Cloud services experienced interruptions during what the company says was a larger network issue.
• Google services like Gmail, Google Drive, and YouTube were impacted as well as Snapchat, Nest, and Discord, all of which use Google Cloud.
• Google’s cloud monitoring site indicated the issue began around 12:25 p.m. PST on Sunday and is impacting large portions of the United States and parts of Europe. At 12:59 p.m. PST, Google reported the outage was related to a larger network issue.

YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Nest, Discord, and several other web sites were experiencing service interruptions on Sunday due to a larger network issue with Google Cloud services.

According to Google’s cloud monitoring dashboard, the issues began around 12:25 p.m. PST Sunday and were found to be related to a larger network issue by 12:59 p.m. PST.

The outage is widespread across the United States and parts of Europe. Much of Google’s suite of services is affected, including Gmail, Google Drive, Nest, and YouTube. Other websites like Snapchat and Discord were experiencing interruptions, likely because they also use Google Cloud services.

Google did not respond to Business Insider’s request for comment.

Update: Google had identified the issue as of 1:36 p.m. PST and was working to restore service, according to a statement posted on the Cloud monitoring dashboard.

“We are experiencing high levels of network congestion in the eastern USA, affecting multiple services in Google Cloud, GSuite and YouTube. Users may see slow performance or intermittent errors. We believe we have identified the root cause of the congestion and expect to a return to normal service shortly.” </s> An outage of Google Cloud took down a whole chunk of services — both Google and third-party — Sunday afternoon in parts of the US and Europe, and while Google believes it has found the cause , full service has not been restored yet.

"We are experiencing high levels of network congestion in the eastern USA, affecting multiple service in Google Cloud, G Suite and YouTube. Users may see slow performance or intermittent errors. We believe we have identified the root cause of the congestion and expect to return to normal service shortly."

The outage of G Suite services and YouTube is bad enough, but this outage took down Google Cloud, too, which in turn caused outages and failures for numerous websites and services that rely upon Google Cloud, including apps like Snapchat, Discord, Shopify web stores and even Pokemon Go. (Hope you weren't planning to go retake that gym this weekend!)

Google is working on a fix and we will let you know once we see things clearing up. In the meantime... maybe go cool off by the pool? </s> A mysterious outage has hit Google Cloud, one of the biggest cloud service providers on the internet, and thousands of sites have gone down as a result, including both Google and non-Google services.

Affected companies include some of the biggest names around, such as Snapchat, Vimeo, Shopify, Discord, Pokemon GO; but also most of Google's own services, like YouTube, Gmail, Google Search, G Suite, Hangouts, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Nest, and others.

In an extreme case of irony, according to a Google employee, the outage was so severe that it also took down internal tools Google engineers were using to communicate among each other about the outage, making recovery efforts even more difficult.

"We're having what appears to be a serious networking outage," the Google employee said in a HackerNews post.

"It's disrupting everything, including unfortunately the tooling we usually use to communicate across the company about outages."

The networking issue appears to be related to an outage at Level 3, an US-based ISP that provides connectivity and various other services to Google data centers.

In January, a similar Level 3 outage caused authentication services to go down for all Microsoft cloud services, with the most impacted being Office 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure Government Cloud.

Google Cloud Platform services have been down for at least two hours, at the time of writing. Users in North America are being impacted the most, although some European users also reported scarce problems.

This is a developing story. More updates will follow. </s> Google services like YouTube, Nest and Gmail, as well as Cloud customers like Snapchat, Shopify, Vimeo and Discord were impacted by the problem, which began around 12:15 Pacific time.

"We are experiencing high levels of network congestion in the eastern USA, affecting multiple services in Google Cloud, G Suite and YouTube. Users may see slow performance or intermittent errors," the company said on its status page at the time.

While the congestion occurred in the US, its impact was felt globally, and was described by network monitoring company ThousandEyes as a "large scale" outage

The problem was resolved as of 4:00pm Pacific time, with Google promising to "conduct an internal investigation of this issue and make appropriate improvements to our systems to help prevent or minimize future recurrence. We will provide a detailed report of this incident once we have completed our internal investigation. This detailed report will contain information regarding SLA credits."

In a statement, the company apologized for the inconvenience and thanked customers for their "patience and continued support." It added: "Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better."

The outage which, among other things, meant that Nest users could not control their thermostats, comes after several major disruptions have impacted the largest cloud companies in recent years, highlighting the difficulty of building a resilient service, even with enormous resources.

Just last year saw Google Cloud go down due to a BGP error, Microsoft Azure be knocked out by a lightning strike, and Amazon Web Services be disrupted by a “power event.” </s> Google products such as YouTube, Gmail, Gsuite and more in the US had suffered a temporary outage but services have now been restored. As per Google, the main reason for the problem happened to be Google’s Cloud service that powers these apps.

The most affected were on the east coast of the US but as per a report by The Verge, YouTube was down in some parts of Europe as well. Indian users, to the best of our knowledge, did not suffer from this Google shutdown. The issues started cropping up by 12.00 pm PT (12.30 am IST, next day) and Google resolved it in four hours.

Apart from just Google services, Snapchat, Discord, Nest and more products were also affected as they run on Google Cloud on the backend. A Google spokesperson told The Verge that “high levels of network congestion in the eastern USA” is to be blamed for the issue.

This outage comes in the backdrop of an ongoing feud of the company with US antitrust regulators who have reportedly evinced a new interest in pursuing competition charges against Google.

Governments around the world are becoming increasingly unnerved by the power amassed by major technology companies — with the dominance of Google in search, Facebook in social networking and Amazon in e-commerce raising the sharpest concerns. In the most dramatic scenario, a case might be made for breaking the companies into smaller pieces.

Tech2 is now on WhatsApp. For all the buzz on the latest tech and science, sign up for our WhatsApp services. Just go to Tech2.com/Whatsapp and hit the Subscribe button. </s> Google server issues have affected tech services across the United States with outages reported in the UK, Europe and other parts of the globe. Google users have reported long loading times on apps like Google Photos or crashes on the popular video service YouTube. On Sunday evening (June 2) more than 4,370 user-submitted reports to DownDetector.com complained of issues with Google and Snapchat. According to the website, Google has been having “issues since 12.57am EDT”.

One Google user, Zachary Salman, said: “Google Maps is still having trouble. The site itself loads but different function within it freeze up and sit there for two or three minutes before anything happens.” Eva Friedberg said: “Can’t use Gmail through a third-party application (Quickbooks). Trying to send out May invoices!” Another person complained of a “state-wide” outage in Idaho, US, and another report complained of slow Google Maps speeds in Aals Belgium. Google Home also appears to have been affected by the server issues alongside Google Nest and people have claimed to have been locked out of their Gmail accounts. READ MORE: How to add another email account to your Gmail

According to a Google spokesperson, an issue with the tech giant’s Google Compute Engine has triggered a “larger network issue.” The spokesperson said: “We are experiencing high levels of network congestion in the eastern USA, affecting multiple services in Google Cloud, GSuite and YouTube. “Users may see slow performance or intermittent errors. “We believe we have identified the root cause of the congestion and expect to a return to normal service shortly.” As of Monday, June 3, most of Google’s services appear to be back and running as normal, although individual issues are still being reported. READ MORE: Can you get WhatsApp on Apple Watch 4?

At 8.20pm on Sunday, Snapchat’s support team tweeted: “We’re aware of an issue preventing some Snapchatters from using the app. Hang tight.” User reports on DownDetector.com complained of people being unable to log in to their accounts. Others reported not being able to upload photos to their Snapchat stories. READ MORE: How to turn on dark mode in WhatsApp chat

One person wrote: “Won’t let me upload photos to my story? Anyone else? Was down last night but came back and is now doing this.” Another Twitter user said: “My Snapchat is sending my stories on a two hour delay. Fix your app.” Mackenzie Papa said: “Snap still isn’t letting me post and it’s really p****** me off.” And Victoria Smiley said: “My Snapchat will not upload any stories. But I can snap people.” Despite these user reports, Snapchat’s support team announced on Monday morning the problem has been dealt with. </s> A widespread Google Cloud outage hit Sunday, rendering popular sites and apps like YouTube and Gmail unusable for many users, CNET reports. Google's Cloud Computing Engine and Cloud Networking services began experiencing issues as of 4 p.m. ET, according to the status page on company's website.

According to Down Detector, which logs outages and service interruptions, the outages appear to be primarily clustered along the East Coast of the United States as well as in parts of South America and Europe.

In addition to popular social media sites, Google Cloud is relied on by a variety of large-scale companies, including Weight Watchers, PayPal and Target. Even Apple admitted it uses Google Cloud for its iCloud storage services, The Verge reports.

Social media users have been quick to voice their frustrations. The hashtag #YouTubeDOWN is now among Twitter's trending topics in the U.S.

It was not immediately clear what caused Sunday's issue or when services might be restored, according to CNET. They have reached out to Google for comment.
Google has a cloud services outage that affects Gmail, Snapchat, YouTube and other services in parts of the United States.