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Impact to Canvas and Other Learn@UW Services Due to AWS Incident [RESOLVED]

Posted: 2025-10-20 08:50:14   Expiration: 2025-10-21 18:50:14

AWS is experiencing a service impacting incident, which has affected multiple Learn@UW tools.

Update as of 6:17pm CDT:

Canvas is up and available and Instructure (Canvas vendor) has reported the issue resolved.  There are no known issues with any other Learn@UW services at this time.

Original Outage Description:

Canvas is currently unavailable.  TopHat reports inconsistent access to various features.  Other Learn@UW services were impacted between 11:00pm and 5:30am this morning but have reported recovery.  It is possible to see continued impact as AWS has not reported the incident resolved.

Impact to Users:

Learn@UW services may be unavailable or slow to respond

Workarounds:

There are no known workarounds at this time

Estimated time to resolution:

Resolved.  You can see the history of the of the issue at https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status and https://status.instructure.com/

-- Learn@UW: Andrew Reinke