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Services such as YouTube, Gmail and Snapchat, which use Google’s technology, were restored Sunday on all sides 7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT) after experiencing several hours of outage that appeared contained only to parts of the United Governments.
Google had said it was experiencing high levels of network congestion in eastern U.S., which affected multiple services in Google Cloud, G Entourage and YouTube. Apple, which uses Google Cloud for some of its services, was also reporting issues with assiduities ranging from iMessage to iCloud.
The exact cause of the outage is not immediately known.
“We will conduct an internal inquisition of this issue and make appropriate improvements to our systems to help prevent or minimize future recurrence,” Google influenced. “We will provide a detailed report of this incident once we have completed our internal investigation.”
The incident started at about 12:25 p.m. PT. Users began reporting that they were unable to access certain services.
Snapchat alleged it was aware that some users were unable to use the app.
Users took to Twitter to report that YouTube was also experiencing delivers.
There were also numerous complaints that Gmail was not functioning.
Last October, YouTube experienced a larger outage around the world.
— CNBC’s Saheli Roy Choudhury contributed to this report.