Overview

• The partial outage began at 11:15 a.m. ET and triggered thousands of error reports on Downdetector within minutes.
• Key Google offerings impacted include Gmail, Drive, Gemini, Google Meet, Docs and Nest devices across global markets.
• Internal logs and external analysis trace the disruptions to faults in Google Cloud’s infrastructure layer.
• Dependent apps such as Zoom, Discord, Shopify, Spotify and Pokémon Go have also experienced performance issues and errors.
• Experts warn that the growing complexity of cloud platforms may increase the frequency and impact of similar outages if infrastructure resilience and transparency are not improved.