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AWS outage hits Coinbase, cloud services disrupted by thermal event
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AWS thermal failure in US‑East‑1 forces downtime for EC2, EBS and Coinbase exchange, with recovery expected after a day.
AWS confirmed a cooling‑system failure at its US‑East‑1 data center caused a power outage that left EC2 instances and EBS volumes impaired and forced Coinbase’s exchange platform offline for several hours [3].
| At a glance | |
|---|---|
| Region | US‑East‑1 (Northern Virginia) |
| Outage cause | Thermal event / cooling failure |
| Duration | Power restored by 1:50 PM PDT Friday; full recovery expected in ~1 day |
| Crypto impact | Coinbase services down ~7 hours |
What triggered the outage
A temperature rise inside a single data center triggered automatic shutdown of servers to protect hardware, leading to a loss of power in the affected Availability Zone [2]. AWS restored power to a subset of the infrastructure by early afternoon Friday and began bringing additional cooling capacity online, but some services—including Amazon SageMaker, OpenSearch, and EC2 instances—remained impaired [3].
Ripple effects for crypto platforms
Coinbase, a newly announced AWS partner, experienced exchange disruptions for roughly seven hours while the outage was being addressed [3]. The incident highlights the reliance of cryptocurrency infrastructure on a single cloud region; many crypto‑related services run on AWS, and any prolonged outage can affect trading, wallet operations, and on‑chain data feeds.
What to watch
- Recovery milestones – AWS aims to restore full cooling capacity and bring all impaired services back online by the end of the next business day.
- Coinbase status – Monitor Coinbase’s service‑status page for updates on the exchange’s functionality and any residual latency.
- Regional risk – Watch for AWS communications on redundancy plans for US‑East‑1, especially any announcements about diversifying crypto workloads to additional regions.
The outage underscores the physical‑layer risk inherent in cloud‑first architectures that power much of the crypto ecosystem, raising questions about how firms will balance cost efficiencies with resilience to avoid future service interruptions.
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- 01Amazon says it could take at least a day to restore data centers hit by 'objects' in the UAEInsider
- 02AWS hit by US-East-1 outage after data center thermal eventNetwork World
- 03AWS Confirms Data Center Outage Caused By 'Thermal Event,' Some Services Still ImpactedCRN
AI-assisted synthesis by the TrendWatcher Editorial Desk · sourced from 3 outlets · Jun 17, 2026 · How we report
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May 9, 2026, 03:02 PM
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Joe Green
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