In brief – Coinbase users reported widespread issues with trading, fund transfers, and the mobile app on Thursday night. – The exchange said AWS failures in the US-EAST-1 region affected multiple availability zones and disrupted core trading services. – Downdetector data showed…
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Coinbase users faced hours of service disruptions late Thursday and into early Friday after failures tied to Amazon Web Services infrastructure disrupted core trading systems, the cryptocurrency exchange said. In a post on X Friday morning, Coinbase said the outage began around 8 p.m. ET on Thursday afternoon, after its systems detected elevated error rates across multiple services. “Around 8 p.m.
ET, Coinbase systems detected elevated error rates across multiple services, which the company traced to failures in AWS Availability Zone use1-az4 in the US-EAST-1 region,” Coinbase wrote. Amazon declined to comment on the outage, instead pointing to its Service Health Dashboard. The outage follows another AWS-related disruption in October that temporarily knocked Coinbase and Robinhood offline, and prevented some users from accessing their accounts or executing trades.