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.
Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, blamed the outage on an AWS outage, causing issues with the Canvas login service and submission system.
This has left users unable to sign in to view courses or submit their work.
Author's summary: Canvas outage affects Emory University due to AWS issues.