StudyWithAthena Subprocessors
Athena is an AI study coach operated by Instructure, Inc. that helps students know what to study next and coaches them until they get it.
- Subprocessors
- 15
- Locations
- 1
- Categories
- 10
- Last scanned
| Name | Category | Purpose | Location | Data processed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | Cloud Infrastructure | Hosts Athena's learning engine, its database, and uploaded files, in infrastructure operated by Instructure's core platform team |
 United States
|
Conversations, study materials, uploads, course context read from your LMS, LMS connection credentials (encrypted), account identifiers |
| Vercel | Cloud Infrastructure | Hosts the Athena web application and handles file uploads |
United States
|
Account information, requests to the application, uploaded files |
| Neon | Database | Database for the web application |
United States
|
Account information, subscription status, settings, study records |
| Upstash (QStash) | Database | Schedules and delivers background jobs (for example conversation analysis, study reminders, push notifications) |
United States
|
Job identifiers (user, chat, course) and push-notification text; no conversation content |
| Ably | Communications | Delivers real-time update signals from Athena's servers to your browser (for example that a course sync finished) | Global | Account identifier and course identifier, in transit only; not stored |
| Apple | Technology | Delivers push notifications to the iOS app via Apple Push Notification service |
United States
|
Device tokens, notification text |
| Resend | Sends account and study emails |
United States
|
Email address, name, email content | |
| Stripe | Payment Processing | Processes payments for personal subscriptions |
United States
|
Email, payment details (card numbers are held by Stripe, not Athena), transaction records |
| Apple App Store | E-commerce | iOS app distribution and in-app purchases |
United States
|
Purchase and subscription identifiers |
| OpenAI | AI | Generates tutoring responses and study content (paid API terms; no training on Athena data) |
United States
|
Your messages, conversation history, uploads and course material, preferred first name, LMS identifiers |
| Anthropic | AI | Generates tutoring responses and study content under Instructure's enterprise agreement (no training on Athena data) |
United States
|
Your messages, conversation history, uploads and course material, preferred first name, LMS identifiers |
| AI | Generates tutoring responses and study content via Gemini API (paid API terms; no training on Athena data) |
United States
|
Your messages, conversation history, uploads and course material, preferred first name, LMS identifiers | |
| PostHog | Analytics | Product analytics and session replay (replays show the page as the learner saw it, including conversation text; passwords and account details are masked) |
United States
|
Account identifier, usage events, session replays |
| Observe | Monitoring | Logs and traces for the learning engine |
United States
|
Account identifiers, request metadata |
| Dash0 | Monitoring | Logs for the web application |
United States
|
Account identifiers, request metadata |
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November 8, 2026
+15 added
- + Amazon Web Services (Cloud Infrastructure)
- + Vercel (Cloud Infrastructure)
- + Neon (Database)
- + Upstash (QStash) (Database)
- + Ably (Communications)
- + Apple (Technology)
- + Resend (Email)
- + Stripe (Payment Processing)
- + Apple App Store (E-commerce)
- + OpenAI (AI)
- + Anthropic (AI)
- + Google (AI)
- + PostHog (Analytics)
- + Observe (Monitoring)
- + Dash0 (Monitoring)