We saw that no one is immune from major IT outages in 2021, not even mega titans like Google, Facebook, and Amazon AWS. The following is a recap of some of the major IT outages with widespread impact for 2021. Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) historic outage occurred on December 7, 2021 and lasted roughly 6 and a half hours. The breadth of Amazon and its reach caused not only their warehouse and delivery operations to stop.

Slack, a popular enterprise communications platform, faced a 5-hour system outage yesterday between 9:25 AM – 2:24 PM EST on February 22, 2022. Slack services affected included: messaging, search, link previews, apps/integrations/APIs, posts/files, workspace/org administration, login/SSO, notifications, connections, and calls. AlertOps was NOT affected by this outage.