After a 20-minute break, YouTube announces the return of its services to work

Alphabet Inc’s YouTube announced Tuesday that it has fixed an issue that left thousands of users unable to access its platform or experiencing slow services.

The Downdetector website, which tracks internet outages, showed that there are more than 15,000 cases of people reporting having trouble accessing YouTube. The site tracks outages by compiling reports from a number of sources, including errors that the user sends on its platform.

“If you had a slower than usual service or problem accessing YouTube earlier today – we’ve found a solution. The problem lasted about 20 minutes,” YouTube said on Twitter.

A major outage disrupted Amazon’s cloud services for several hours last week, rendering Netflix, Disney+ and a slew of other services inaccessible, including Amazon’s e-commerce site.
The website ToolTester, which reviews Internet tools, said YouTube had experienced 65 outages over the past 12 months.