Canvas and MyGateway Services affected by Amazon outage

Description

Feb 28, 2017, noon to 4pm:  Due to the Amazon hosting outage, all of Canvas and some of the third-party services within MyGateway were unavailable for about 4 hours.  Amazon started to stabilize at 4pm but some services in Canvas, like uploading assignments and sending of notifications were slow or intermittent until about 8pm.  Some of the third-party services affected in MyGateway included Learning Objects wikis/blogs and most of the textbook publishers’ sites.  All services should be fully functional at this time.