Google Drive is back online after brief outage

Google Drive is back online following a disruption that caused the company's productivity apps went down for many users Friday afternoon.

Google Docs and Google Sheets, the company's spreadsheet creation tool, were unaccessible from Google's apps and websites for more than an hour Friday. The main website for Google Drive and Slides, the presentation counterpart to Docs and Sheets, at first appeared to be unaffected but later also went down. Classroom, which is used in schools, also went down, according to the company.

"Google Drive, Docs editors and Classroom have been restored for 99.5% of affected users as of 1:01 PM Pacific, and for the remaining 0.5% of users by 2:10 PM Pacific," Google said in a statement. "During the event, our top priority was to restore service." Read more...