WASHINGTON, June 3, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Congested Google servers in the
eastern United States caused problems for users of Snapchat and YouTube on
Sunday, with complaints on social media that the popular apps weren’t
accessible.
Google acknowledged the issue, writing in a statement on its Cloud Platform
status page that it was dealing with “high levels of network congestion in
the eastern USA, affecting multiple services in Google Cloud, G Suite and
YouTube.”
“Users may see slow performance or intermittent errors,” it said, adding
that engineers had completed the first of two steps to restore normal
operations.
Earlier in the day, social media users complained of trouble loading a slew
of popular websites and apps.
“Google, YouTube, Snapchat, Shopify, all currently down. Is the internet
melting?” asked one Twitter post.
Snapchat and Google-owned YouTube both acknowledged the server issue on
their Twitter accounts.
Cloud computing is one of Google’s most lucrative services, but faces stiff
competition from other technology companies like Amazon and Microsoft.
In March, the world’s largest social network, Facebook, blamed a “server
configuration change” for a massive outage affecting its applications around
the world.
The outage affected users for at least 12 hours in most areas of the world,
with the biggest impact in North America and Europe, a tracking website said
at the time.