AWS data center outage hits trading on Fanduel, Coinbase

Amazon Web Services, a leading cloud provider, on Thursday began reporting operational issues affecting commerce across platforms, including: coinbase and FanDuel.

“Full recovery is still expected to take several hours,” AWS wrote last update Friday at 9:51 ET.

According to AWS, the outage was due to overheating at a data center in its main US-East-1 region hosted in northern Virginia. AWS said the issues were in the “single Availability Zone” in the region.

“We are actively working to bring additional cooling system capacity online that will enable us to recover the remaining affected hardware in the affected region,” AWS said in a 9:51 a.m. ET update.

AWS said it is working to resolve corrupted EC2 instances that provide virtual server capacity.

The AWS health dashboard first posted that it was “investigating sample corruption” at 8:25pm ET on Thursday.

AWS had no additional comment.

At 9 p.m. ET on Thursday, sports betting app FanDuel told X that its team is “aware of this situation and is investigating.” current technical difficulties We prohibit users from accessing our platform.”

The company released an update two hours later that the issue was related to an issue. wider AWS outageGamblers complain about losing bets that they cannot cash out on the platform.

Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase also Published on X Friday It said the failures in multiple AWS regions “caused prolonged disruption to essential commerce services.” The platform wrote in its post that the primary problem was completely resolved.

AWS accounts for nearly a third of the cloud infrastructure technology market, providing services to millions of companies.