Amazon Web Services was down for the third time this month as of Wednesday morning, causing disruption to work-related services Slack and Asana.
“We’re seeing improvements with most services that were affected earlier while the issues with file uploads are ongoing,” said Slack at 9:35 a.m. EST. “We’re continuing to investigate and will post our next update in 30 minutes.”
Slack is providing updates on the issue every 30 minutes.
According to the AWS service health dashboard, there were errors connected to “Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (N. Virginia)” from 4:35 a.m. through 6:13 a.m. PST. Amazon operates a data center in Northern Virginia for its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud service, which allows users to launch virtual servers.
“AWS operates state-of-the-art, highly available data centers,” explained the company. “Although rare, failures can occur that affect the availability of instances that are in the same location. If you host all of your instances in a single location that is affected by a failure, none of your instances would be available.”
As of 6:13 a.m. PST, AWS said that power was restored to “all instances and network devices within the affected data center,” and that other recovery was in progress.
In addition to Slack and Asana, the outage affected image service Imgur and the Epic Games store, The Verge reported. Earlier this month, two other outages involving AWS impacted streaming sites like Netflix and Disney Plus, along with home devices like security cameras from Ring and Wyze, said the outlet.
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