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Amazon Leading cloud provider Web Services on Thursday began reporting operational issues impacting trading on its platform, including: coinbase And FanDuel.
“Full recovery is expected to still take several hours,” AWS wrote in its latest update at 9:51 a.m. ET on Friday.
According to AWS, the outage was caused by overheating in a data center in the main US-East-1 region hosted in Northern Virginia. AWS said the issue was with a “single availability zone” in the region.
“We are actively working to bring additional cooling system capacity online, which will allow us to recover any remaining affected hardware in the affected zones,” AWS said in an update at 9:51 a.m. ET.
AWS said it is working to resolve the failure of EC2 instances that provide virtual server capacity.
The AWS Health Dashboard first posted “Investigating instance failure” on Thursday at 8:25 pm ET.
AWS did not provide additional comment.
Sports betting app FanDuel posted on Thursday at 9pm ET that its team is “aware of and investigating a current technical issue that is preventing users from accessing our platform.”
The company posted an update two hours later saying the issue was related to a widespread AWS outage, with gamblers complaining of losing their bets by not being able to withdraw cash on the platform.
Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase also posted on X Friday that an outage had occurred in multiple AWS zones, “causing an extended outage of core trading services.” The platform said in a post that the major issues have been fully resolved.
AWS accounts for approximately one-third of the cloud infrastructure technology market and serves millions of businesses.
