Massive Google Cloud Outage Takes Down YouTube, Gmail, and Snapchat In Parts of US

An anonymous reader quotes the Verge:
YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Nest, Discord, and a number of other web services are suffering from outages in the U.S. today. The root cause appears to be problems with Google's Cloud service which powers apps other than just Google's own web services. Google has issued a status update on its Cloud dashboard, noting that issues began at around 3:25PM ET / 12:25PM PT.

The issues appear to be mostly affecting those on the East Coast of the US, but some YouTube and Gmail users across Europe are also reporting that they're unable to access the services. Discord and Snapchat users are experiencing issues logging into the apps, and these both use Google Cloud on the backend.

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