On Monday, 15% of requests sent to Google’s cloud storage system were disrupted. The following day, with Gmail down again, Google placed the blame on data migration. Letters being sent via Gmail were bouncing back to senders with an accompanying message that read, “”The email account that you tried to reach does not exist.” On its website, Google apologized. “We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support,” the company stated. “Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better.”
There have been no subsequent outages reported after Wednesday’s issue.