---
title: "Slack Migrates to Cell-Based Architecture on AWS to Mitigate Gray Failures"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/slack-migrates-to-cell-based-architecture-on-aws-to-mitigate-gray-failures-xjadx5zm0
source_url: https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/01/slack-cell-based-architecture/
type: article
source: "InfoQ"
published: 2024-01-17T10:09:16.720Z
updated: 2026-03-15T03:45:15.434Z
tags: ["architecture", "aws", "cloud", "cloud-native", "devops", "dns", "envoy", "hashicorp", "networking", "slack"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 3
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Slack Migrates to Cell-Based Architecture on AWS to Mitigate Gray Failures

**[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 3 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Slack migrated to a cell-based architecture on AWS to mitigate gray failures. The new architecture allows for incremental traffic shifting away from affected availability zones, improving resiliency.

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