# Title:

- Provider: [Google Workspace](https://down.guide/google-workspace)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 4h 45m
- started 2025-11-12 17:00 UTC
- Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Sheets +1
- id: DWN-eb4c93df7b
- Official page: https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/viWmkGEagnWrqYfb7VpS

## Updates from Google Workspace
### 2025-11-12 18:44 UTC: service\_information
\*\*Title:\*\*
We are investigating access issues with multiple workspace products.
\*\*Description:\*\*
We are experiencing an issue with Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs beginning at Wednesday, 2025-11-12 09:00 PST
Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.
We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2025-11-12 11:10 PST with current details.
We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.
\*\*Symptoms:\*\*
Some customers are encountering SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR\_SSL\_PROTOCOL\_ERROR" when accessing Google Drive, Google Sheets, and Google Docs.
\*\*Workaround:\*\*
None at this time.

### 2025-11-12 19:05 UTC: service\_information
\*\*Title:\*\*
We are investigating access issues with multiple workspace products.
\*\*Description:\*\*
We are experiencing an issue with Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs beginning at Wednesday, 2025-11-12 09:00 PST
Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.
We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2025-11-12 11:45 PST with current details.
We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.
\*\*Symptoms:\*\*
Some customers are encountering SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR\_SSL\_PROTOCOL\_ERROR" when accessing Google Drive, Google Sheets, and Google Docs.
\*\*Workaround:\*\*
None at this time.

### 2025-11-12 19:46 UTC: service\_information
\*\*Title:\*\*
We are investigating access issues with multiple workspace products.
\*\*Description:\*\*
We are experiencing an issue with Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs beginning at Wednesday, 2025-11-12 09:00 PST
Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.
We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2025-11-12 12:10 PST with current details.
We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.
\*\*Symptoms:\*\*
Some customers are encountering SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR\_SSL\_PROTOCOL\_ERROR" when accessing Google Drive, Google Sheets, and Google Docs.
\*\*Workaround:\*\*
None at this time.

### 2025-11-12 20:08 UTC: service\_disruption
\*\*Title:\*\*
We are investigating access issues with multiple workspace products.
\*\*Description:\*\*
We are experiencing an issue with Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs beginning at Wednesday, 2025-11-12 09:00 PST
Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.
We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2025-11-12 12:40 PST with current details.
We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.
\*\*Symptoms:\*\*
Some customers are encountering SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR\_SSL\_PROTOCOL\_ERROR" when accessing Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Forms.
\*\*Workaround:\*\*
None at this time.

### 2025-11-12 20:57 UTC: service\_disruption
\*\*Title:\*\*
We are investigating access issues with multiple workspace products.
\*\*Description:\*\*
We are experiencing an issue with Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Forms beginning at Wednesday, 2025-11-12 09:00 PST.
Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.
We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2025-11-12 13:15 PST with current details.
\*\*Symptoms:\*\*
Some customers are encountering SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR\_SSL\_PROTOCOL\_ERROR" when accessing Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Forms.
\*\*Workaround:\*\*
None at this time.

### 2025-11-12 21:18 UTC: service\_disruption
\*\*Title:\*\*
We are investigating access issues with multiple workspace products.
\*\*Description:\*\*
We are experiencing an issue with Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Slides beginning at Wednesday, 2025-11-12 09:00 PST.
Our engineering team is actively investigating the issue.
We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2025-11-12 14:15 PST with current details.
\*\*Symptoms:\*\*
Some customers are encountering SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR\_SSL\_PROTOCOL\_ERROR" when accessing Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Forms.
\*\*Workaround:\*\*
Impacted customers may try and reboot their routers as a potential workaround.
Customers may also try to access via a mobile device..

### 2025-11-12 22:24 UTC: service\_disruption
\*\*Title\*\*
We are mitigating the access issues with multiple workspace products.
\*\*Description\*\*
Our engineering team has identified the root cause. We are seeing a decrease in user impact and are currently working to resolve the issue.
We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2025-11-12 15:30 PST with current details.
\*\*Customer Symptoms\*\*
Some customers are encountering SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR\_SSL\_PROTOCOL\_ERROR" when accessing Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Forms.
\*\*Workaround\*\*
Affected customers may try accessing via a mobile device.

### 2025-11-12 23:32 UTC: service\_disruption
\*\*Title\*\*
We are mitigating the access issues with multiple workspace products.
\*\*Description\*\*
Our engineering team has identified the root cause. We are continuing to see a decrease in user impact and are currently working to resolve the issue.
We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2025-11-12 16:30 PST with current details.
\*\*Customer Symptoms\*\*
Some customers are encountering SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR\_SSL\_PROTOCOL\_ERROR" when accessing Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Forms.
\*\*Workaround\*\*
Affected customers may try accessing via a mobile device.

### 2025-11-13 01:23 UTC: resolved
\*\*Title\*\*
Access issues with Workspace products are now mitigated.
\*\*Description\*\*
The issue with Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Forms has been resolved for all affected users as of Wednesday, 2025-11-12 13:45 PST.
The root cause was associated with a third party and external to Google infrastructure.
We thank you for your patience while we worked on resolving the issue.
\*\*Customer Symptoms\*\*
A small number of customers may have encountered SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR\_SSL\_PROTOCOL\_ERROR" when accessing Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Forms.
\*\*Workaround\*\*
Not applicable.

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