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marcinzm
Looks to be their authentication layer since existing connections kept working even when new connections couldn't be made.
bpodgursky
Yeah, hard to see what else would take down every region at once.
SigmundA
It always seems to be auth, the gatekeeper is the single point of failure in many systems it seems.
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WFHRenaissance
This status page... the lack of updates... it's like watching snow melt
bpodgursky
Global outages make a lot of people feel good about not bothering to set up multi-region deployments though.
klyrs
I came here expecting global warming jokes.
WFHRenaissance
It would make sense if the outage was constrained to US-West, given the heatwave and all.
ApolloFortyNine
Yikes, there's not separating availability zones, then there's not separating entire regions and continents.
x86_64Ubuntu
They may have a single point of failure shared in a sub-sub-sub-service. Or, they may have pushed not-so-great code into all regions/zones and whatnot.
slenk
I wonder if that is what is causing the Slack issues
rshm
Whats happening with the slack now ?
slenk
Was slow to load messages for quite a bit. Seems fixed though
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coolspot
I appreciate their honest status page.

In contrast to Amazon/Cloudflare’s “some users may experience delays” when in fact everything is down for a whole continent.

londons_explore
The "some users" wording comes from the fact that at any point in time only a small proportion of users are trying to use the service.

Anyone not using the service when it is down isn't experiencing a service outage.

dgudkov
Wow, Snowflake can do incident notification via webhooks! Pretty cool.