Interestingly enough, only the Google Maps app faced these problems yesterday. The web version apparently continued to work normally, according to user reports. Google says that the service has been completely restored. However, the company has not provided an explanation for what went wrong, though it has said that it will publish an analysis once the internal investigation is complete.
The problem, as mentioned above, only affected a few regions around the world. I checked Google Maps once the issue was being reported on yesterday, and it was working fine over here.
Google Maps fails to load for a user. | Image credit — Reddit
It also probably served as a nice reminder to not put all of your digital eggs in the cloud servers of one company. Whenever services like Google Maps, or its cloud storage, or something else equally important goes down, many users are left in the dark with very little options.
Fortunately, Google Maps didn’t stay out of service for too long. Given the gravity of the situation, Google got to work almost immediately, and was able to fully restore the service in around three hours.
Those three hours, however, especially in less developed regions where even ambulances and fire trucks use the app, must have been very difficult on people.
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