University of Nebraska incident
Canvas is experiencing issues due to an ongoing AWS incident
University of Nebraska experienced a major incident on October 20, 2025 affecting Canvas, lasting 1d 1h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified Oct 20, 2025, 01:34 PM UTC
We are currently waiting for full recovery due to an ongoing AWS incident. You can follow the status of the issue at https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status and https://status.instructure.com/
- identified Oct 20, 2025, 09:21 PM UTC
ITS is aware that Canvas is still unavailable to most users. Instructure has confirmed that this is related to the ongoing Amazon AWS outage. We continue to monitor the Instructure and AWS status pages for updates on this issue.
- monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 11:13 PM UTC
All issues appear to have subsided, and all systems are performing as expected. We're continuing to monitor for any reoccurring problems.
- resolved Oct 21, 2025, 02:59 PM UTC
All systems are operating normally. This issue is resolved.