The issues started around 12PM PT / 3PM ET, before being completely resolved around 5PM PT / 8PM ET.

Google’s G Suite Status Dashboard showed that there were problems with almost every single service at some point, barring Google+ and Google Cloud Search.

The internet giant didn’t elaborate on what caused the extended outage, but apologized for the inconvenience caused.

“We will conduct an internal investigation of this issue and make appropriate improvements to our systems to help prevent or minimize future recurrence. We will provide a detailed report of this incident once we have completed our internal investigation,” it said in the incident report.

The incident, although resolved, puts the reliability of Google cloud infrastructure into question. It also highlights the consequences of excessive reliance on one company for backend services.

We’re keeping an ear to the ground for more details on Google’s outage, and will update this post when we learn more.