Google down RECAP: Gmail, Drive and Workspace users hit by huge outage

The tech comapny said people should be able to access Google products, including Google Docs and Google Chat.

The company said: "A subset of workspace customers experienced elevated latency and error rates using workspace services.

"Our initial investigation points to a hardware infrastructure failure as the likely cause. Engineers have mitigated the workspace impact by routing the traffic away from the affected hardware infrastructure.

"We thank you for your patience while we're working on resolving the issue."

Google has quickly resolved the issue and confirmed its services were back up and running again.

Google said: "The issue has been mitigated for all affected users."

Some Google users saw the funny side in the outage because it hit in the afternoon.

One person, on X, said: "Google drive is down? Well my work day is over then."

A confused Google user commented on the outage on X.

They said: "Google would go down on a Friday lol like this couldn't wait til Monday?"

A report from Google acknowledged an issue with it's services for some users.

Google said: "Various Workspace services are experiencing elevated latency and error rates."

Hundres of outage reports have come through in the last two hours, according to DownDetector.

Affected Google servcies include Gmail, Google Drive, Google Meet and Google Workspace..

This has meant people have also been left with issues with key platforms like Google Chat, Google Docs and Google Analytics.

Services including Gmail, Google Drive, Google Meet and Google Workspace have reproetdly been affected in the outage.