Google says internal storage quota issue is to blame for outage on Monday

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Google says internal storage quota issue is to blame for outage on Monday
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Google says internal storage quota issue is to blame for outage on Monday

The authentication system outage lasted for about 45 minutes and took out Google services across the world

Google on Monday suffered a worldwide outage, disrupting the company's online services, including Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and Google Maps. The company has now revealed the reason for this ou...

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