BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Students and faculty at different schools across the county experienced disruptions after the schools’ learning platform, Canvas, went down. But the problem isn’t just local — it's part of a much bigger issue affecting users across the country.

Students and faculty at Cal State Bakersfield and Bakersfield College faced disruptions Monday when Amazon Web Services — or AWS — went down. In turn, that caused the Canvas learning platform to also fail.

Officials at both schools say they’re monitoring the situation, and students are being asked to check with their professors for any course updates or deadline changes.

Chris Diniz is the vice president, and chief information officer, at CSUB and he says, “There’s a nationwide outage with Amazon Web Services, better

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