A massive internet outage has hit the US, knocking dozens of popular websites offline.
According to Downdetector, Google, Costco, Spotify and many others went down around 10:30am ET.
Many features of Google Workspace are also experiencing issues, including Gmail, Drive, Cloud and Chat.
Users may face challenges accessing their accounts and files in the middle of a workday.
While thousands of Americans issued reports to Downdetector, the outage seems to be plaguing all parts of the globe.
Google has acknowledged the outage, saying: ‘We’re currently experiencing elevated latency and error rates for several Cloud services in the us-east1 region.
‘Our initial investigation points to a hardware infrastructure failure as the likely cause.’
This is a developing story… More updates to come
A massive internet outage has hit the US, knocking dozens of popular websites offline
