From Gmail to Gfail: Google's G-Suite topples over for unlucky netizens, rights itself
Found on The Register on Sunday, 29 March 2020
The outage affected Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Hangouts Chat, and Meet services. The G-Suite admin console and Classroom services were also down. Basically, Google said users reported being unable to access its platforms.
"Some of our users experienced a service disruption ... as a result of a significant router failure in one of our data centers in the South Eastern US, causing network congestion," the web giant said.
It's rather strange that a router failure would cause such an downtime, considering marketing never fails to point out how many redundancy systems are in place.