Gmail, YouTube and other Google services are back online after global outage

HIGHLIGHTSGoogle services including YouTube and Gmail were down globally for about an hour today.Google confirmed the outage saying all of its services are affected.Gmail and YouTube seem back online but Google is yet to confirm if all services have been restored.Google

services abruptly went down on Monday evening, impacting hundreds of

users. Among the services that were disrupted at the time of writing

include Gmail, Google Search, YouTube, and Drive. The latest outage,

which seems to be more intensive than the last one, seemingly started

around 5 pm IST today. Downdetector, the website that tracks web

outages, reported over 40,000 outage cases from around the world nearly

10 minutes after the outage began. YouTube and Gmail seem to have been

worst hit globally, causing an uproar on Twitter about how Google

services have left them high and dry especially on the first day of the

week.Latest update: Google is saying that its

services are back online. Here is what it says on the Gmail service

status page: "The problem with Gmail should be resolved for the vast

majority of affected users. We will continue to work towards restoring

service for the remaining affected users, but no further updates will be

provided on the Google Workspace Status Dashboard. Please rest assured

that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making

continuous improvements to make our systems better." The same message is

repeated for all other services that were down.Update:

Some users are reporting that Gmail is working again and they can log

into it. It seems emails are also coming. However, Gmail is also showing

a warning when users are logging back in. It says. "Gmail is

temporarily unable to access your Contacts. You may experience issues

while this persists."