Google Inc. reported Sunday that YouTube, GMail, Google Calendar and nearly all its of other consumer-facing services experienced major service problems for about four hours after reports of outages flooded in from users around the country.

The company said it experienced "high levels of network congestion in the eastern USA, affecting multiple services in Google Cloud, G Suite and YouTube," after web monitoring services began reporting high numbers of connection failures at about 3 p.m. on a host of Google services at about 3 p.m., most of them in the eastern half of the country.

At 7:30 p.m., it said the "issue affecting Google Cloud, G Suite, and YouTube is resolved for the vast majority of users, and we expect a full resolution in the near future."

In addition to YouTube, GMail and Calendar, affected services included Google Drive and its related editing and presentation tools, like Docs and Sheets; Hangouts; Keep; Tasks; and Voice. Google status pages showed that two of the company's major internal backbone engines, Cloud Service and Compute Engine, also were "reporting issues" during the same time frame.

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Google is down. We have a Nest thermostat. Nest runs on Google. Can’t turn on AC because app is down.



Neat. — Danny (@jDantastic) June 2, 2019

Dang Google...my company is small and my husband’s company is huge. All of our email and inter co communication down. My friend works for you and she has no company or personal email. WTH? #googledown #damn — Caryl (@Caryl57) June 2, 2019

Wow, #YoutubeDOWN for a while now. At least over 45 or so minutes by my count. — Tim Pool (@Timcast) June 2, 2019

The reports began surfacing at about the same time that Level 3 Communications, a prominent provider of internet services in 46 states and much of South America, was experiencing similar problems, also primarily in the eastern half of the country.

Level 3's clients include Google, but it couldn't immediately determined whether the two incidents were related.