Google announces on how Gmail, Youtube and other services suffered outage

Google services has deeper penetration across the globe including Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive has stopped working for users across the globe recently.

Google explained that Google's automated storage quota management system was the major cause behind the global outage. Google uses an evolving suite of automation tools to manage the quota of various resources allocated for services.

As part of an ongoing migration of the User ID Service to a new quota system, a change was made in October to register the User ID Service with the new quota system, but parts of the previous quota system were left in place which incorrectly reported the usage for the User ID Service as 0.

Existing safety checks exist to prevent many unintended quota changes, but at the time they did not cover the scenario of zero reported loads for a single service,” Google said in its blog.On December 14, Gmail users across the globe were in for a rude shock when Google services went down abruptly. As per Downdetector, the website that tracks web outages, reported over 40,000 outage cases from around the world nearly 10 minutes after the outage began.

YouTube and Gmail seem to have been the worst hit globally, causing an uproar on Twitter about how Google services have left them high and dry especially on the first day of the week.

In another instance, Google says Goodbye to its IoT platform. It has announced that new projects can only be created until January 5, 2021. After that, Android Things will go into a sort of maintenance mode. During that time, developers can use the Android Things console to build images and serve over the air updates for their existing projects.