Google Cloud goes down, taking YouTube, Gmail, Snapchat, and others with it
Summary
A mysterious outage has hit Google Cloud, one of the biggest cloud service providers on the internet, and thousands of sites have gone down as a result, including both Google and non-Google services. In an extreme case of irony, according to a Google employee, the outage was so severe that it also took down internal tools Google engineers were using to communicate among each other about the outage, making recovery efforts even more difficult. "Were having what appears to be a serious networking outage," the Google employee said in a HackerNews post. " The networking issue appears to be related to an outage at Level 3, an US-based ISP that provides connectivity and various other services to Google data centers. Google Cloud Platform services have been down for at least two hours, at the time of writing.