Same, Canvas is perhaps the most used Learning Management System in the US and they apparently are entirely hosted on AWS East. The real kicker is I had my students midterm due date literally today for two classes. I’ve been swamped with panic emails (and I made clear my due dates aren’t even that important when there isn’t a national outage lol).
My head canon is someone wished for a miracle due date extension somewhere in the country and they monkey’s pawed AWS into non existence.
I’m sure there’s a self hosted option but no way in hell it’s as popular as it is without being a turnkey solution. Most smaller districts wouldn’t touch anything self hosted with a 10 foot pole. They don’t have the resources.
Same, Canvas is perhaps the most used Learning Management System in the US and they apparently are entirely hosted on AWS East. The real kicker is I had my students midterm due date literally today for two classes. I’ve been swamped with panic emails (and I made clear my due dates aren’t even that important when there isn’t a national outage lol).
My head canon is someone wished for a miracle due date extension somewhere in the country and they monkey’s pawed AWS into non existence.
I thought Canvas was self hosted? Or do they offer service instances too?
I’m sure there’s a self hosted option but no way in hell it’s as popular as it is without being a turnkey solution. Most smaller districts wouldn’t touch anything self hosted with a 10 foot pole. They don’t have the resources.
I thought that too until today, it’s never clear until a quarter of the Internet is down randomly.