Google outage hits Gmail, Snapchat and Nest
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#51WSM)
Company investigating after Cloud Platform problem causes email delivery failures
A brief outage on Google's Cloud Platform led to failures at Gmail, Snapchat and the smart home company Nest on Wednesday afternoon.
The failure, which began at 3.35pm BST, affected a number of tools that Google uses internally and provides to other companies to host web services.
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