UCSB incident

Amazon Web Services Outage Effecting Campus Websites

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

UCSB experienced a minor incident on October 20, 2025 affecting AWS, lasting 21h 12m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Oct 20, 2025, 05:51 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 21, 2025, 03:03 PM UTC
Duration
21h 12m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 05:51 PM UTC

Affected components

AWS

Update timeline

  1. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 05:51 PM UTC

    Some UCSB websites reply on Amazon Web Services and are impacted by the ongoing outage. Among the sites affected include Canvas, Gateway, and Smartsheet. We are monitoring the situation

  2. resolved Oct 21, 2025, 03:03 PM UTC

    Amazon's dashboard states, "all AWS services returned to normal operations."