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Coinbase users locked out as outage stretches past five hours

Coinbase suffered an outage and degraded performance, linked to problems with a specific AWS facility.

Coinbase says AWS cooling failure crashed exchange during turbulent week — CEO Brian Armstrong calls it 'never acceptable'

Coinbase COIN Chief Executive Brian Armstrong said an overheating issue inside an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center ...
The Next Web

Coinbase cut 700 jobs on Monday, lost $394 million on Thursday, and went dark on Friday because a data centre overheated

Coinbase went offline for seven hours after an AWS data centre overheated in Virginia. The outage capped a week of 700 layoffs and a $394M quarterly loss.
Decrypt

Coinbase Outage Disrupts Crypto Trading and Transfers Amid Amazon Service Failure

Coinbase says Amazon Web Services failures across multiple availability zones caused an extended outage on its platform.
The Next Web

AWS was hit by overheating in northern Virginia, knocking Coinbase offline and rattling CME

AWS shifted traffic away from the affected zone and warned that fully restoring the remaining services would take longer than expected. Amazon Web Services said on Thursday that one of its data ...
Analytics Insight

AWS Overheating Outage Disrupts Coinbase and FanDuel Activities

Amazon Web Services faced an overheating issue at one of its Northern Virginia data centers, disrupting Coinbase, FanDuel, ...
Blockonomi

Coinbase Exchange Knocked Offline by AWS Cloud Service Disruption

Coinbase exchange went offline for over two hours on May 8, 2026 due to an Amazon AWS outage. Trading was halted but user ...
CoinDesk

Spot Bitcoin ETFs solved access, but custody, advisors and plumbing still lag, panelists say

Senior figures from CoinShares, Calamos, ProShares and Flow Traders flagged Coinbase-heavy custody concentration, modest ...