AWS Outage Hits Triad Businesses and Colleges, Disrupting Operations

AWS outage hits Triad businesses and colleges, disrupting operations

An AWS outage caused disruptions for businesses and schools in Triad, affecting services like online learning platforms and restaurant operations.

‘Operational issues’: Canvas down nationwide after AWS outage

Canvas, the well-known application used for schools, colleges and universities, went down after the Amazon Web Services outage on Monday. Instructure, the company that owns Canvas, has released a timely, updated history of what happened to the Canvas website and app. The first documented issue occurred at 3:04 a.m. EST, when Instructure began investigating the issue of Canvas being down. Twenty minutes later, it identified that the issue’s sourc…

AWS Outage Disrupts Canvas, Grubhub and Other Services for Lindenwood Students

Lindenwood students, professors and administrators are waiting anxiously for Canvas, Grubhub and other services to be restored after an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage knocked out many apps and websites on Monday. The outage began around 2 a.m., according to DownDetector, a website that tracks online service outages. As of 3 p.m. Monday, the issue had not been resolved. The Canvas outage comes at a critical time for Lindenwood students and facu…