Amazon Web Services Issues Cause Canvas Outage
Canvas, the platform used by Emory University to facilitate classes, is experiencing a full outage due to Amazon Web Services (AWS) issues.
According to Canvas' status website, the outage affects half of all North American higher education institutions that use its services.
- Downdetector reports around 5,000 complaints per hour, significantly higher than the usual 5-10 complaints per hour.
- Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, first reported issues at 3:04 a.m. EST, blaming the AWS outage for login and submission system problems.
Canvas reports that half of all North American higher education institutions use its services and are impacted by the outage.
Author's summary: Canvas outage affects North American institutions due to AWS issues.