Overview
- AWS reported overheating in one Northern Virginia facility Thursday night in the US-EAST-1 use1-az4 zone, causing power loss that impaired EC2 servers and EBS storage.
- Coinbase put markets in cancel-only then auction mode and reenabled all trading after several hours early Friday, saying customer funds were safe.
- AWS said recovery was slower than expected Friday as it brought more cooling online, with some EC2 and EBS resources still impaired for hours.
- CME restored logins to its CME Direct platform and FanDuel users faced access problems tied to the AWS issue, affecting bets and cashouts for some gamblers.
- Coinbase said failures hit multiple AWS zones while AWS described a single-zone event, and CEO Brian Armstrong called the outage never acceptable and cited failed chillers as the trigger.