Mass Outage Affects Slack, Facebook, and Amazon: It’s Not You, It’s the Internet!
Summary
- Date: February 26, 2025
- Incident: Multiple online services, including Slack, Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and Amazon, are experiencing outages.
- Cause: The outages are likely due to issues with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which has also reported problems.
- Status Updates: A Slack spokesperson confirmed that teams are aware of the issue and are investigating. For updates, users should check status.slack.com.
- Impact: Users should know that the problem is widespread and not limited to their individual internet connections.