AWS data center outage in Northern Virginia disrupts Coinbase and FanDuel trading
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Lola Murti
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Summary
Amazon Web Services experienced a data center outage in its US-East-1 region (Northern Virginia) due to overheating, affecting major platforms like Coinbase and FanDuel. AWS reported that full recovery would take several hours, with efforts progressing slower than anticipated. The issues were confined to a single Availability Zone in the region.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledFull recovery is still expected to take several hours
efforts are slower than we had previously anticipated
We are actively working to bring additional cooling system
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