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AWS Northern Virginia Data Center Outage Disrupts Major Services

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in Northern Virginia suffered a "thermal event" that caused a significant outage, leading to service disruptions for various platforms including Coinbase and FanDuel. AWS is actively working to restore cooling and affected services.

8 May, 07:53 — 8 May, 21:07
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cnbcMostly Factual7h ago

AWS data center outage hits trading on Fanduel, Coinbase — recovery to take hours

The cloud platform says it is currently working to resolve the outage, caused by overheating at a data center in Northern Virginia.

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Times of IndiaMostly Factual11h ago

Coinbase reports service issues, points finger at AWS cloud outage

A cooling issue at an Amazon Web Services data center in Northern Virginia caused widespread service disruptions. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and derivatives giant CME Group were among the affected. AWS confirmed increased temperatures in a single data center impacted services. Efforts to restore cooling capacity led to extended outages for some customers. The primary issue is now resolved.

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Amazon reports cloud outage at North Virginia data center; CME, Coinbase face trading issues

It was not immediately clear if the issues at AWS and CME were related. Coinbase, however, says problems with its platform were caused by the AWS outage.

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zerohedgeLow11h ago

"Thermal Event" Triggers Service Disruptions At Amazon AWS Cloud Hub In Northern Virginia

"Thermal Event" Triggers Service Disruptions At Amazon AWS Cloud Hub In Northern Virginia Amazon Web Services said that recovery efforts are still underway after a "loss of power during a thermal event" disrupted a Northern Virginia data center on Thursday evening. "Mitigation efforts remain underway to resolve the impaired EC2 instances and degraded EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone (use1-az4) in the US-EAST-1 Region," AWS wrote on its Service Health page, indicating th...

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Almere data center fire under control; Caused outages throughout Netherlands

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