KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — An Amazon web services outage has caused major disruptions across the country on Monday. The service provides remote computing services to many governments, universities, and companies.
Students at many different universities have been having trouble accessing Canvas, an online learning platform, because of the outage and that includes the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
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Canvas is a platform where UT students access almost everything for classes, from notes to tests and turning in assignments. It’s all done on Canvas and with it down, it’s causing quite a disruption.
“Really, without Canvas, you can’t submit anything, look for notes. Everything is on Canvas. So that’s shut down. You have recess basically for the whole day,” said UT freshman Leeba Curlin…