Gmail And Google Drive down globally, users report being unable to send emails and attach files

Google has confirmed that Gmail and Drive are not available to a lot of users around the world at this time. You may have already noticed issues with either logging into Gmail or even if you could, sending emails and attachments. Google is currently investigating the reason why Gmail and Drive are down.

This is the second time in two months that Gmail has suffered such massive outage. In July this year, Google users had a harrowing time in India as Gmail services went down for hours.

Users in India and in some other countries went to social media platforms complaining they were unable to access Gmail and other Google services

In July, many users were unable to log into Gmail for a short window of time—an issue subsequently fixed but Google never confirmed why that happened. At this time, Gmail and Google Drive outage is impacting users in India as well as across Europe, Asia and the US.

In a first update at 10:59am this morning, Google said, “We’re investigating reports of an issue with Gmail. We will provide more information shortly.” The issues persist and as of 11:37am when Google last shared an update, they said, “We are continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by 8/20/20, 1:30 PM detailing when we expect to resolve the problem.” This may just be a good time to ignore your emails and go grab a coffee instead.