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Google outage: YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, other services down Sunday

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A Google outage affected some services Sunday afternoon, including YouTube, Gmail, Snapchat and others.

According to the Google Cloud Platform dashboard, there was an issue with the Google Compute Engine, affecting social media apps and websites. The issues started around 3:25 EST.

Users primarily on the East Coast of the United States were reporting issues with Google and apps that use Google Cloud, such as Snapchat and Discord, according to downdetector.com . But people in other regions of the U.S. and Europe had issues as well.

Just before 8 p.m. Eastern, some users on DownDetector.com were reporting service was coming back up for them. Down Detector is tracking the situation with a map that may be viewed here.

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