Coinbase outage analysis: 10-hour trading halt caused by missing automated zone failover
Coinbase experienced a major outage on May 7, with its global trading service going offline for nearly 10 hours. The article analyzes this incident through an engineering lens, focusing on the critical reliability failure: Coinbase's system lacked automated zone failover, meaning when one cloud availability zone went down, the system could not automatically route traffic to another zone. This deep dive examines the architectural decisions, incident response, and lessons for engineering teams building resilient systems.
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On the evening of Thursday, 7 May, trading at Coinbase went offline and stayed that way for nearly 10 hours (!!).
Customers could not buy, sell, deposit, receive, or wit
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