LOW FLOOR OF GMAIL. I don’t know if it’s wonderfully liberating or incredibly stressful ? ♀️
– Rebekah Scanlan (@rebekahscanlan) 20 August 2020
#Gmail has been inactive for more than an hour. pic.twitter.com/UQMYFPH0EO
– Luke Stateson (@lukestateson) August 20, 2020
Down Detector reported significant reports of incoming outages at 12:40 p.m. Et. At the time of writing, the service also reported as dysfunctional through part of Benzinga staff in India and Japan. The service looked like paintings in Israel and Cambodia.
Google confirms the outage: Google has admitted service disruption on its G Suite Prestige Dashboard website. “We’re still investigating this issue.” The company noticed it at 3:09 a.m. ET, and promised to provide an update within the next hour.
“Gmail mailingArray Meet RecordingArray creating records in Drive, uploading CSV users to the Admin console, posting messages to Google Chat,” Google said in an update a few minutes later.
The tech giant also provided an update for its Google Drive service.
Price action: Alphabet’s Class A shares closed with a drop of about 0.7% to $1,544.61 on Wednesday and fell 0.1 in the one-hour session. The company’s Class C shares closed with a drop of about 0.7% to $1,547.53 on the same day.
Editor’s Note: This is a forthcoming story and will be updated as more data becomes available.
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