Verizon reported a cut fiber cable in Brooklyn which may have led to the outage. Crowdsourced data on Downdetector.com shows that many sites have been affected by the outage including Amazon, YouTube, Comcast and Verizon. Key FactsLast month, Google was hit with a much larger global outage taking down all its major services including Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, Google Docs, Google Drive. In November, Amazon Web Services, the e-commerce giant’s cloud service, was also hit with a similar outage that disrupted large portions of the web. Further ReadingBig Internet outages hit the East Coast, causing issues for Verizon, Zoom, Slack, Gmail (Washington Post)

Source: Forbes January 26, 2021 18:45 UTC