
Slack is down. Zoom is down. Even Wordle is down, so don't think about killing time with puzzle games while your remote team figures out why their critical platforms are broken. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the server platform behind hundreds of the Internet's most popular apps, services, and games, and reports on the official AWS Service health page confirm "increased error rates" responsible for a huge chunk of the web going down.
Some user-friendly dashboards, like Downdetector, show the same news, though early signs show that recoveries could be happening as the pings begin dropping — though it's more likely that fewer reports are coming in compared to previous hours.