Google service outage: Gmail, Search, Cloud and other services restored after hour-long disruption

Google services such as Gmail, Drive, Search, and more experienced a significant outage worldwide, peaking around 9 PM ET. The outage, mainly affecting the US and UK regions, was attributed to a power loss in a London data center. Google’s services were down for approximately 40 minutes in the UK, with Cloud Platform users experiencing issues for around 2 hours.