On Thursday, Amazon Web Services said that one of its major data centers in north Virginia was overheating so much that it had to be shut down.
According to The Next Web, AWS engineers were forced to throttle their services and then reroute customer traffic to other facilities, affecting customers like the crypto platform Coinbase, which experienced an “extended outage of core trading services.”
Things hadn’t improved by Friday morning, and Amazon refused to give an estimate as to when the issue would be resolved. “We are actively working to bring additional cooling system capacity online, which will enable us to recover the remaining affected hardware in the impacted zone,” AWS said in an update.
Though the issue was said to have been resolved by 11:30am on Friday, an “ongoing issue” in the company’s north…
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