Wednesday, 13th of March, Google is going through a global outage on some of their services. The ones affected in particular are Gmail, Google Drive and Google Maps. Google has acknowledged the issue by posting an update on their service website.

Google said: “We are continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by 3/13/19, 1:44 PM detailing when we expect to resolve the problem.
Users will have issues accessing or attaching files in various products.
This includes Gmail and Drive. Gmail: Attaching or accessing attachments, as well as accessing and saving draft emails and sending emails. Drive: Upload and download of files.”

Those with the issue are not able to upload or access attachments on Gmail, and not being to upload or download on Drive.

Us here at the office actually are going through the issue too. We couldn’t open any of our attachments from emails and couldn’t even send an attachment. If you’re facing this issue too, Google will probably get it fixed pretty soon. But it does serve a reminder that we rely on Google a bit too much these days.

On the bright side, it’s one day when you don’t have to open and check emails because you have a valid excuse.

Gmail’s down, what you want me to do??