Gmail suffered a major outage on Tuesday night, resulting in messages sent to Gmail.com addresses not being delivered. It was the second major outage in a week.
The outage started on Tuesday evening around 9:42 p.m. and was resolved just before 1 a.m. on Wednesday. Users reported Tuesday evening that they did have access to Gmail. However, messages sent to Gmail.com addresses got a bounce notification that the email account they were trying to reach did not exist.
The problems occurred worldwide. Google itself speaks of a ‘significant amount’ of users who were affected by it. It is not known whether the failure affected all users. The last time Google itself announced how many Gmail users there were in total was in 2018; then had the webmail service 1.5 billion active accounts.
It is the second time in a week that Gmail has gone down. On Monday, the issue was that an authentication failure prevented users from signing in to Gmail and other Google services, such as YouTube and GSuite.