YouTube Outage Chaos, Google 'Gmail' Troubles Again After Two Days

[Asia Economy Reporter Buaeri] On the 16th, Google's email service Gmail experienced an error, causing inconvenience to users. This occurred just two days after the Google and YouTube outage incident.

According to 'Downdetector', which tracks internet service disruptions, errors among Gmail users surged starting around 5 a.m. that day.

Google also announced via its status dashboard around 6:30 a.m. that "Gmail is accessible, but there are increased delays and error messages appearing." Google added, "We plan to resolve the issue affecting many users by 9 a.m."

Previously, on the 14th, from 8:47 p.m. to 9:32 p.m. Korea Standard Time, a global outage occurred on services including Google and YouTube, causing inconvenience worldwide. During this period, accessing YouTube displayed a "loading error" message, hindering smooth use. On social networking services (SNS), posts flooded reporting errors not only on YouTube but also on 18 services including Google Docs, Maps, and Google Meet.

On the 15th, Google issued a statement saying, "An authentication system failure occurred due to an internal storage quota issue. We apologize to all users who experienced inconvenience," and added, "We will conduct thorough reviews to prevent recurrence of this issue." However, another error occurred just one day after Google's official apology.

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