Slack AI: The Path to Multi-Cloud
May 28, 2026
Summary
This post details the foundational build of the Shipyard platform, outlining its architecture, the technical decisions made, and the challenges overcome in its creation. It also details the integration of scalable network probing and HTTP/3 readiness using Prometheus within Shipyard, and discusses the challenges and strategies for operating Shipyard in a multi-cloud environment, including considerations for network latency, data locality, and cost optimization.
More from the EC2 Platform Evolution trail
- Shipyard: How We Built Slack’s Next-Generation EC2 Platform
- Agentic Testing: Where Agents Fit in the E2E Testing Stack
- From SSH to REST: A Security-Driven Modernization of Slack’s EMR Data Pipelines
- Managing context in long-run agentic applications
- From Custom to Open: Scalable Network Probing and HTTP/3 Readiness with Prometheus