CloudInfoQabout 3 hours ago
Coinbase Outage Traced to AWS Cooling Failure
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A localized AWS cooling failure in US-East-1 on May 7, 2026, triggered a multi-hour Coinbase trading outage. The exchange's Raft-based matching engine lost quorum when three of five nodes in a single cluster placement group went offline. Full recovery took most of the following day.
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