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Google restores apps after outage

Google says it has resolved the problems with email, data storage and other cloud services that were disrupted Wednesday morning.

All services working again by 11 a.m. ET

Google says it has resolved the problems with email, data storage and other cloud services that were disrupted Wednesday morning.

Starting around 9 a.m. ET, Google started investigating reports of problems with its:

  • Gmail email service.
  • Drive data storage service.
  • Presentations.
  • Spreadsheets.
  • Documents.
  • Admin control panel, which allows users to manage their Google apps in one place.

Google's Apps Status Dashboard reported the admin control panel issues as an "outage" affecting a "significant subset of users."

It described the problems with other services as a "disruption."

All services were report to have been fully restored by 11 a.m. ET.

Google said the problems with Gmail affected less than 0.007 per cent of its user base.