{
  "id": "2025-10-20-cypress-college-canvas-aws-outage",
  "slug": "cypress-college-canvas-aws-outage-2025-10-20",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Cypress College",
    "shortName": "Cypress",
    "state": "CA",
    "type": "community-college",
    "alertSystemName": "Cypress College Campus Safety / @CypressCollege",
    "enrollment": 16000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "type": "it-systems-outage",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "resolved",
    "headline": "Canvas learning platform down in widespread AWS outage",
    "headlinePublic": "Canvas learning platform down in widespread AWS outage",
    "summary": "Cypress College [@CypressCollege](https://x.com/CypressCollege/status/1980298359673110715) alerted that Canvas was unavailable due to a widespread AWS outage affecting service availability.",
    "outcome": "Canvas interrupted; district monitoring and myGateway updates."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2025-10-20T08:41:35-07:00",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "Alert - CANVAS OUTAGE!\nWe sincerely apologize for the current service interruption.\nThe Canvas platform is currently affected by a widespread Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, which is impacting service availability.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/CypressCollege/status/1980298359673110715",
      "sourceDescription": "@CypressCollege Canvas AWS outage",
      "annotations": [
        "Dual independent X fetch match 2026-08-03. SPN 523."
      ],
      "characterCount": 216
    }
  ],
  "context": "Cypress College posts operational alerts on [@CypressCollege](https://x.com/CypressCollege).",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Learning-platform outage attributed to AWS."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "@CypressCollege Canvas AWS outage",
      "url": "https://x.com/CypressCollege/status/1980298359673110715",
      "type": "official-social",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-03",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "SPN 523"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "community-college",
    "california",
    "it-systems-outage",
    "cypress",
    "diversity"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-08-03",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-03",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}