Our Canvas CMS has been out for half of the day today. This is where student assignments, grades and course content are stored for our whole university. I knew it was bigger than K-State when I saw a faculty friend from Mizzou wondering if others couldn’t use Canvas.
I soon learned that Canvas is hosted on Amazon Web Services or AWS, and that was the source of the difficulty. This is a service that is normally very reliable. So I started searching on Twitter to see what people are saying. And I found these memes about it already.
White House confirms: #AWS #S3 functioning as expected, no reports of outages. pic.twitter.com/Zzh6wOFRLP
— Will Dunn (@xiaodown) February 28, 2017
Amazon S3 according to the #AWS status page. pic.twitter.com/WpMAyHs0nY
— David C. Campbell (@DCCampbell) February 28, 2017
Amazon technicians right now fixing Amazon S3 outage #aws #awsoutage pic.twitter.com/CVij8sevzO
— Suhaib Malik (@suhaibmalik) February 28, 2017
Mr. President, is Amazon S3 down today? #amazons3 #aws @realDonaldTrump @amazon pic.twitter.com/2vzQW7cP1p
— James Hopkins (@Endgax) February 28, 2017