Finally, the note played up the ability to "attach documents directly into your Drive Gmail, " and given that it's intended to be an open platform, Goog's promising to work with third party developers in order to enhance Drive's functionality even further.

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Users can also open files directly from Dropbox, Box, Google Drive or Gmail in one-tap for sharing and feedback on the go.

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For Google, the move helps drive users to Gmail as well as the potentially to add a feature to its software for businesses, called Google Apps.

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In addition to Gmail, the outage also affected Google Drive, Google Chat, Google Calendar, Google Play and Google Chrome Sync.

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