Amazon Web Services (AWS) has confirmed a recent outage that impacted customers was caused by overheating at a North Virginia data center.
The disruption affected one of AWS’ six Availability Zones, use1-az4 in the AWS US-EAST-1 region. This is one of the company’s most heavily used regions globally.
Notably, the incident hit platforms including cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, disrupting core exchange functions for more than five hours. Other reported victims include the CME Group trading platform and major gambling company FanDuel.
Coinbase last night warned that some users might experience delayed sends and receives on the Solana network and for ALEO, but said it was working on the issue.
The crypto trading platform has since resumed operations. In a statement, Coinbase said: “All markets have been re-enabled for trading on coinbase.com and in the Coinbase iOS and Android apps. Coinbase customers can log in to trade.”
FanDuel, meanwhile, posted a statement on X,…
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