Coinbase Hit by Service Outage After AWS Data Center Overheats, Trading to Resume Soon

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JOON HYOUNG LEE

Summary

  • Coinbase, the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, suffered a service outage.
  • The disruption was caused by an overheating problem at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center.
  • Coinbase's trading service will resume in cancel-only mode and return to normal soon.

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U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase suffered a service outage.

Odaily and other outlets reported on May 8 that the disruption was caused by an overheating problem at an Amazon Web Services data center.

Coinbase's trading service will initially resume in cancel-only mode. Cointelegraph reported that normal operations are expected to return soon.

JOON HYOUNG LEE

JOON HYOUNG LEE

gilson@bloomingbit.ioCrypto Journalist based in Seoul
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