Coinbase said AWS failures disrupted core trading services after errors spread across multiple zones. The company traced the outage to use1-az4 in AWS’s US-EAST-1 Region.
Key Takeaways:
Coinbase linked the trading outage to failures across multiple AWS zones.The disruption interrupted core trading services despite built-in recovery systems.Coinbase plans a full review while awaiting AWS’s official retrospective.“We observed failures impacting multiple AWS zones, which caused an extended outage of core trading services.”
Earlier updates from Coinbase linked the disruption to increased temperatures in the affected Availability Zone, use1-az4. The company said trading would be re-enabled gradually by first placing all markets into “Cancel Only” mode before restoring full trading access. Coinbase later posted at 3:48 a.m. on May 8 that all markets had been re-enabled for trading on Coinbase Exchange.
Coinbase Continues Review After Trading Service Disruption“Our team will conduct a full analysis. Details may change as our investigation progresses and more information is received from AWS’s official retrospective, once published.”
Further details now depend on Coinbase’s internal review and AWS’s official retrospective. The company cautioned that information may change as the investigation progresses and more findings become available.
