Here is Why YouTube, Gmail, and Snapchat Were Down in Some Parts of US

Yesterday, Google's Cloud Servers were down in some parts of US.

YouTube Outage Map - downdetector.com

High levels of network congestion occurred in the eastern USA, affecting multiple services in Google Cloud, G Suite and YouTube.

This affected YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Nest, Discord, and a number of other web services that relied on Google Cloud Service.

YouTube Users also reported outage in a number of countries worldwide on Down Detector and #YouTubeDown was trending on Twitter while the outage lasted.

youtube, Gmail, and Snapchat right now #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/ggTU1YbzZ6

— jackis (@pyxku) June 2, 2019

#YouTubeDOWN

*snapchat goes down and everyone freaks out*

“well at least things can’t get any worse”

Youtube: pic.twitter.com/zT1Eg7OdQN

— soph ♪♫ (@sophiavespolii) June 2, 2019

Fuck YouTube is down,,that means I have no other option than to actually do my school work 🤡 #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/O14EWSrLgp

— 𝐀𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬,,𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 (@ineff_jhyun) June 2, 2019

Google’s issues started at around 3PM Eastern Time (ET) / 12PM Pacific Time (PT) / 7PM Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), Jun 02, 2019, according to Google Cloud Status Dashboard and the issues were resolved within 4 hours.

Google noted that,

We will conduct an internal investigation of this issue and make appropriate improvements to our systems to help prevent or minimize future recurrence.

We will provide a detailed report of this incident once we have completed our internal investigation.

This detailed report will contain information regarding SLA credits.