Amazons AWS logs third outage this month, affecting Slack, Epic Games Store, Asana and more

Amazon’s crucial web services business AWS has experienced problems today due to a power outage, affecting services like Slack, Imgur, and the Epic Games store for some users. It’s not looking good if you’re working from home, with some Slack users unable to view or upload images and work management tool Asana also hit by the outages.

The official AWS service health dashboard blamed the issues on power outages in a single data center, affecting one Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) within the US-EAST-1 Region. At 9:13AM ET, Amazon said it had restored power to the affected servers, and by 12:28PM ET, it had “restored underlying connectivity to the majority of the remaining” systems. However, users may still be experiencing issues as services...

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