Why Did Google Go Down

Google says the outage was caused by an “internal storage quota issue”, which is not as simple as it sounds. In a statement, a Google spokesperson told India Today Tech that its services experience what is an “authentication system outage” for about 45 minutes due to the said internal storage quota issue.

What causes Google outage today?

The company explained that Google’s automated storage quota management system was the major cause behind the global outage. … Existing safety checks exist to prevent many unintended quota changes, but at the time they did not cover the scenario of zero reported loads for a single service,” Google said in its blog.

Why did Google crash yesterday?

In a thread on the Chromium developer forum, Google Software engineer Tim Steele explained that the issues were due to a misconfigured server that took out Google’s Sync platform. … From our investigation, it appears the crashes were due to bugs in both the sync client and server.