AWS Data Center Overheating Disrupts Coinbase for Hours
An overheating incident at a single AWS availability zone in the US-EAST-1 region in Northern Virginia caused disruptions to EC2 instances and EBS volumes, leading to a nearly 7-hour outage for cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. The event highlights the fragility of cloud-dependent services.
Key facts
- Overheating at a single AWS availability zone in US-EAST-1
- Disrupted EC2 instances and EBS volumes
- Coinbase experienced nearly 7 hours of downtime
- Incident occurred in Northern Virginia
Entities
Institutions
- AWS
- Coinbase
Locations
- Northern Virginia
- United States
Sources
- Quartz —