Internet Status — May 28, 2026: Core Infrastructure Stable, Slack Hit by Multi-Region Latency

The internet's core infrastructure is operating normally today. Major cloud providers — Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure — and CDNs including Cloudflare and Fastly report no significant incidents. GitHub, OpenAI, Discord, Atlassian, Vercel, and DigitalOcean are all fully operational.

The most notable disruption today is at Slack. Beginning around 6:30 AM ET, Slack's status page flagged degraded messaging, apps/API, and canvas functionality, with reports of severe latency across all services. More than 6,000 users across the US, UK, and Australia reported problems, primarily with sending and receiving messages. The impact is limited to Slack's own platform and is partial rather than a full outage; Slack engineers are working on a fix.

A few smaller, localized issues are also in play. Twilio is reporting carrier-level SMS/MMS delivery delays on specific US routes (Verizon MMS, Google Voice SMS) and Australian sender-ID registration problems. Zoom's Giphy integration in chat is degraded. Charter Spectrum saw a brief early-morning spike in US subscriber outage reports. Cloudflare is running scheduled datacenter maintenance in several locations (Seattle, Salt Lake City, Düsseldorf, Singapore) that may add minor latency in affected regions but is not an outage.

Overall, there is no internet-wide disruption. Core routing, DNS, cloud, and CDN infrastructure are healthy. Today's impact is concentrated in Slack's messaging platform and a handful of localized carrier and ISP issues.