Major internet outage hits US as users report dozens of popular sites are down, including Google

A massive internet outage has hit the US, knocking dozens of popular websites offline.

According to Downdetector, Google, YouTube, Etsy, Spotify and many others went down around 1pm ET.

While thousands of Americans issued outage reports to Downdetector, the outage seems to be plaguing all parts of the globe. 

Users in the UK, parts of Europe, Canada and Asia are also having issues accessing certain websites.

Google and Cloudfare are investigating ongoing outages impacting access to sites.

‘Multiple [Google Cloud Platform] products are experiencing impact due to Identity and Access Management Service Issue,’ Google’s website reads.

‘Our engineers are continuing to mitigate the issue and we have confirmation that the issue is recovered in some locations. We do not have an ETA on full mitigation at this point.’

Cloudflare said that it was having problems with Access logins and its Zero Trust WARP connection. 

This is a developing story… More updates to com