Gmail and Google Drive suffer worldwide outage (updated)

Google has acknowledged the issues via the Google Suite Status Dashboard. — 123rf.com

Users worldwide are reporting that they are having issues with Gmail and Google Drive as many are unable to even send emails. According to website Outage.Report, users in the United States, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia have reported that they are experiencing issues with both Gmail and Google Drive. 

In the past 24 hours, over 1,500 users from the US, over 900 from Australia and over 200 from Malaysia have reported the issue. 

Website Down Detector states that users began experiencing issues with Gmail and Google Drive at 10am today. An outage map and chart on the website indicates that users in Japan, China and India are also experiencing issues Gmail.