A mysterious break in Google Cloud, one of the largest cloud service providers on the internet, was the reason why thousands of websites stopped working. Among these pages was Google, but also services that do not belong to the company.
In the affected companies there were very big names like: Snapchat, Vimeo, Shopify, Discord, Pokemon GO. but also too many of the services of Google, such as the YouTube, Gmail, Google Search, G Suite, the Hangouts, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Nest and many more.
According to a Google employee, the interruption was so serious so it affected the internals tools that Google engineers use to communicate with each other, making recovery even more difficult.
"It seems to be a very serious network outage," a Google employee told HackerNews.
"It affects everything, including, unfortunately, the tools we use to communicate throughout the company for the holidays."
The problem was related to an outage at Level 3, a US ISP that provides connection and various other services in Google data centers.
In January, a similar stoppage at Level 3 caused problems for Microsoft cloud services.
Google Cloud services have stopped working for at least four hours and have been perceived from America to Europe.
The company has now repaired the problem, and promised to publish more details about the shutdown.
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