Gmail Outage Causes Email Delays and Raises Concerns over Account Deletion

Gmail experienced a few hours of delayed emails on Thursday, impacting some users. Google acknowledged the issue and stated that it was mitigated for the majority of affected users by 2:45 PM ET, with full mitigation completed by 4:15 PM ET. The company plans to conduct an investigation and publish an analysis of the incident. While the outage did not appear to be widespread, it caused inconvenience for those affected during the workday. Google has confirmed that the issue has been resolved.