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AWS data center outage hits trading on FanDuel, Coinbase
The cloud platform says it is currently working to resolve the outage, caused by overheating at a data center in Northern Virginia.
TL;DR
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced operational issues due to a thermal problem at a Virginia data center.
- The outage impacted trading platforms, including FanDuel and Coinbase.
- AWS is working to resolve the issues by increasing cooling capacity.
- Full recovery is anticipated to take several more hours.
- The problem was linked to overheating in a single Availability Zone within the US-East-1 region.
- AWS provides services for millions of companies and holds about a third of the cloud infrastructure market.