Friday Follow Up
AWS outage and all the news that's not fit to print in the trade press
Phil Hill
October 24, 2025
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What if half the Internet went down for EdTech and nobody reported it - did it actually happen? The only reporting I can find in the education trade press covering Monday’s AWS outage is the Daily Briefing for the Chronicle, and that was reported as a Canvas outage.
Wired reported on the outage impacting college students, again focusing on Canvas, but at least they provided the broader context. Wired, for goodness sake!
