Saturday, 11 April, 2026
Here is why Slack went down on Jan 4
By Basit Ansari
<p>Slack has provided detailed about what happened on Jan 4, the first workday of 2021, when it went down. " We observed signs that we were seeing widespread network degradation, which we escalated to AWS, our main cloud provider," Slack Said in a detailed statement. " The mini-peak at 7 am PST -- combined with the underlying network problems -- led to saturation of our web tier." Which resulted in Slack becoming unavailable.</p>
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