ToplineGoogle has managed to restore its services including Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, Google Docs, Google Drive and others after a nearly hour-long disruption that prevented users from across the world from accessing these platforms. Google's services were hit by a major outage on Monday morning. Corbis via Getty ImagesKey FactsGoogle’s Workspace Status Dashboard shows that all of its major services are have been restored following outages across the board. Similarly, last month, Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud service, faced an outage that disrupted large portions of the internet including platforms like Roku, Flickr and Spotify-owned podcast service Anchor. A major outage at either of the two companies almost always has a cascading effect that affects the rest of the internet.

Source: Forbes December 14, 2020 12:22 UTC