The day Google stopped

Google’s failure on December 14 (local time), one hour to a system error occurs, or the G-mail open Google Maps, and services not available in the YouTube generation did.

To be precise, at 3:47 a.m. Pacific time, the authentication system was down for 45 minutes due to internal storage issues. Services that require user login experienced a high error rate during this period. The authentication system problem was resolved at 4:32 am. Currently, all services are restored. Google also explained the reason that the authentication system was suspended due to internal storage allocation problems through the Google Cloud Twitter account. It also apologized to all affected users and added that it will conduct a thorough follow-up to ensure that the problem does not recur.

With this incident, Google services such as Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Maps, AndSense and Google Pay, Google Home, Google Nest, and Google Chromecast are available in Korea, Europe, the United States, Canada, India, and South Africa. Many were stopped in Latin America and Australia.

The downtime of Google’s service affected several markets, and the stock price of its parent company, Alphabet, before the market fell slightly. Not only that, it also served as an opportunity to inform how broadly the Google service is affecting. It clearly showed the dependence of a single company on various services such as productivity, entertainment, and home utilities. Related information can be found here .