Slack, Amazon Web Services go down in widespread outage

Reported outages for Slack started simply earlier than 9 a.m. ET.
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Slack and Amazon Net Companies skilled widespread outages on Tuesday morning, interrupting communication and work after the vacation weekend.

Down Detector, a website that tracks service outages, famous a spike in reported points for Slack and Amazon Net Companies starting simply earlier than 9 a.m. ET. Coding platform Github additionally seemed to be having issues.

It’s nonetheless unclear what’s inflicting the outages. Slack customers had been unable to load the platform or trade messages.

Slack acknowledged ongoing points in a standing replace posted on its web site.

“We’re investigating the problem the place Slack isn't loading for some customers. We’re wanting into the trigger and can present extra info as quickly because it’s accessible,” Slack mentioned within the replace at 9:25 a.m. ET.

Slack later mentioned it was “nonetheless working in direction of a full decision” of the problem.

Slack customers had been unable to load the platform or trade messages.

Amazon Net Companies and Github have but to touch upon the scenario. AWS skilled a number of widespread outages in December.

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