Google engineers haven't had a good day today. This afternoon, a variety of Google services have gone offline or are barely available. These services include, for example , Google Meet, Drive, Docs, Analytics, Classroom and Calendar.
Although Google's own status dashboards do not display any problems, we're getting reports from around the world from people who aren't able to access any of these services. The best we can say is that these problems began around 6 p.m. PT. PT.
It's rare for this number of Google services to be down at once. Usually, only one service is affected. This time around, however, it is obviously a much broader problem.
We’ve reached out to Google and will update this post once we hear more about what happened.
Update (6:30 p.m. PT): And we’re back. It looks like most Google services are now recovering.
Update: (8:00 p.m. PT): Here is a statement from Google: “We experienced a short service disruption affecting several products including G Suite, and are now recovering. For more details, please visit our status dashboard.”
