WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A massive Amazon Web Services outage impacted over sixty apps or services, with one being Canvas by Instructure, which acts as an online, central hub for coursework, assignments, and student-to-teacher communication. Schools and universities across the nation use Canvas daily, including Baylor University, leaving thousands of students without access to schoolwork.

Hayden Davis, a Baylor senior, said the system hadn’t worked all day. She did not receive a notice from Baylor about the disruption, but instead tried to log on to Canvas and received an error message.

“I couldn’t log in at all,” she said. “So, I thought to myself, ‘Oh wow. If people really need to get in to study something last minute today or if they need to use this time to take a quiz, everyone’s time w

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