YouTube recently experienced an unexplained outage wherein users couldn't navigate the video-sharing website properly and were unable to change accounts nor watch videos properly.
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Last week was an unhappy one for Google. It suffered two major outages; the root cause of each could concisely be described as “oops”.
For 47 minutes Dec. 14, many Google Cloud services were apparently down. They actually weren’t – but nobody could authenticate to them so they were inaccessible. Then, for a combined total of six hours and 41 minutes on Monday and Tuesday, by Google’s count, Gmail began bouncing emails sent to some gmail.com addresses, saying those addresses did not exist.
Meanwhile, Facebook seems to have enough technical debt that it’s blown a Euro-privacy deadline Share
Google has revealed the cause of its very unwelcome Gmail outage and on
The Register’s reading of the situation it boils down to forgetting to take an obsolete version of software out of production.
Google’s shorter explanation for the mess is: “Credential issuance and account metadata lookups for all Google user accounts failed. As a result, we could not verify that user requests were authenticated and served 5xx errors on virtually all authenticated traffic.”
The longer version, detailed in Google’s incident report, kicks off by revealing “The Google User ID Service maintains a unique identifier for every account and handles authentication credentials for OAuth tokens and cookies. It stores account data in a distributed database, which uses Paxos protocols to coordinate updates. For security reasons, this service will reject requests when it detects outd
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Highlights
A global outage knocked out major services of Goolge, including Gmail and YouTube recently.
Google said that it happened due to a mistake with its system for identifying people online.
Google has many tools which allows the tech giant to verify and track logged-in users.
Few days ago, a global outage knocked out major services of Goolge, including Gmail and YouTube and on Friday (December 18) Google said that it happened due to a mistake with its system for identifying people online.
It is to be noted that Google, which is owned by Alphabet Inc, has many tools which allows the tech giant to verify and track logged-in users. According to a post by Google, the company started moving those tools to a new file storage system and during this the system misreported portions of the data. The misreporting caused a global outage of Google services on Monday morning with several of its services going down for 47 minutes. Google said that this is a rare technical misstep.