AWS data center outage hits trading on FanDuel, Coinbase — recovery to take hours
Summary
CNBC reports an AWS data center outage in the US-East-1 Virginia facility that affected trading on FanDuel and Coinbase. AWS indicated the outage was due to a thermal issue and recovery would take several hours; FanDuel and Coinbase confirmed the impact on their platforms. The incident highlights the dependency of financial and consumer services on cloud infrastructure and the need for robust incident response and resilience planning.