<story><title>Gmail and Google Drive Outage</title><url>https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&amp;v=status</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jordanthoms</author><text>There was an outage August 19th, 2019 - almost 1 year ago to the day. As I posted at the time:
&amp;quot;Google often has a outage or two around this time of the year when all the US schools come back and millions of students log in at the same time.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;My pet theory wasn&amp;#x27;t too popular but I&amp;#x27;m going to stick with it :)&lt;p&gt;1- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20740997&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20740997&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Gmail and Google Drive Outage</title><url>https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&amp;v=status</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cezart</author><text>The status from Google Cloud status page offers a bit more technical details of what happened:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We are experiencing an issue with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters using node auto-provisioning becoming stuck during node version upgrades. Node auto-upgrades have been disabled temporarily.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>