From ComputerWorld: The Tuesday outage at an Amazon Web Services data center affected services from several collaboration software vendors, highlighting how reliant companies have become on cloud providers for a variety of workplace tools.
Asana, Smartsheet, Trello, and Slack — all of which host their services on the AWS cloud — reported problems following the AWS outage. Asana and Smartsheet said users were unable to access services for around two hours, while Trello experienced disruption to its “email to board” and “dashcards” features. Slack reported issues with its audio chatroom “huddles” feature, email integrations, and file uploads Tuesday, but did not specify the disruptions were due to the AWS outage. (Slack declined to comment on whether the outage was the cause of its service issues.)
AWS’ own Chime video meeting app was also affected, the company said. Several other core AWS services were offline from roughly 11 a.m. ET to 6 p.m. ET Tuesday — the bulk of the workday for companies affected. Those services included the company’s Elastic Compute and DynamoDB cloud tools, which are used to host customer applications.
The outage affected APIs at AWS’ US East 1 data center, the root cause related to “an impairment of several network devices,” AWS said on its service status page.
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