This past Monday, I rolled out of bed and turned on my computer to notice that I couldn't get into my university's learning management system. Baffled, I texted my sibling, who uses it at another institution. But it was only after I read my morning news (I couldn't tell you which one because I read too many) that I realized that something much worse was going on.
Amazon Web Services, more specifically was down.
But other than my school systems, which wasn't so much a problem by the school and more the vendors, I wasn't actually that impacted.
Sure, I couldn't view/submit my assignments or grades or other edu-related tasks, but my technical stack for personal/professional cases were running alright. But this wasn’t just a me issue.
This was basically everyone.