If you’re reading this article, that means that you are probably one of the many students on campus who tried to log on for whatever Zoom class or assignment you needed to finish. However, all would be for naught as you were met with this charming page.

Fear not, it’s not a local issue but rather, a worldwide one.

Amazon Web Services have dominated the realm of web providers for the last couple of years. Everything ranging from NFL streams to data analyses can be provided by this branch of the big tech giant. However, when the world becomes so reliant on one web provider. What are the consequences?

The consequences are what is seen today. Different web services, not just Canvas, across the globe have experienced outages. Employee comments on the r/AmazonFC and r/AWS Reddit threads are all noting how even Amazon worker operations have mostly ceased until a fix resolves the issue. Other negatively affected web services include Ring, America’s most popular home security camera service, and major streaming apps like Disney+.

So what can you do?

Reach out to a classmate and see if they have any information regarding assignments you need to complete. It’s good to reach out to your professors regarding any online class Zooms. Despite Zoom extensively using AWS, it’s not exclusive, so it should operate as normal. However, this will definitely be a case-by-case basis since DownDetector has reported an increase in outage reports for the online meeting application.

For the tech nerds, you can stalk the r/AWS Reddit thread or this link to the AWS status update.