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An ongoing issue with Google's servers has brought down many
of the company's cloud services, leaving millions of users without access to
their data.
https://www.redsharknews.com/google-is-down-dont-panic
Multiple services including YouTube, Gmail, Google Drive,
Google Docs and Google Photos are all currently affected.
Problems were reported overnight but midday UK time and
tracking site DownDetector shows widespread
YouTube outage.
YouTube tweeted at around midday: ‘We are aware that many of
you are having issues accessing YouTube right now – our team is aware and
looking into it. We'll update you here as soon as we have more news.’
Outages even of such scale are not new. Google was hit by
significant outage in August, which also took down its suite of online services
and YouTube. Its products also experienced a smaller outage last month
But this underlines the common sense in not putting all your
eggs in one basket. Don’t upload all you video or stills or work documents to
just one provider; don’t use one email provider (like who does that anyway?);
and if you’re working with professional video in the cloud maybe events like this
will cause you to think twice.
All the chatter from 2020 reviews and 2021 previews suggest
that the pandemic has put a rocket under existing trends to shift wholesale to
the cloud but if you’re a media organization hosting rushes in the cloud or
playing out from the cloud – whether that’s Google Cloud Platform, AWS or Azure
then you’d better have a solid back-up or two.
Cloud is meant to be the cure-all for business continuity in
event of a third wave, another pandemic or some other disaster of global proportions
but not if its servers are knocked out of action with this ease.
It also illustrates quite how much reliance we have on a
handful of companies for our daily digital needs.
There is no word on the cause of Google’s blackout
today.
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