<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>naedish</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m guessing this outage will allow GSuite customers to claim Service Credits under the SLA - does anyone have any experience with doing so? Google&amp;#x27;s documentation is lacking in detail[0].&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gsuite.google.com&amp;#x2F;intl&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;terms&amp;#x2F;sla.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gsuite.google.com&amp;#x2F;intl&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;terms&amp;#x2F;sla.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>