AWS restores cooling after US-East-1 overheating disrupts services
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Updated · CNBC · May 7
AWS restores cooling after US-East-1 overheating disrupts services
11 articles · Updated · CNBC · May 7
The problem hit a single Availability Zone in northern Virginia, with AWS saying at 9:51 a.m. ET Friday that full recovery would still take several hours.
Coinbase said failures in multiple AWS zones caused an extended outage of core trading services, while FanDuel users reported being unable to access the betting app or cash out bets.
AWS first flagged EC2 instance impairments on Thursday evening and is working to recover affected hardware; the company supplies cloud infrastructure to millions of customers and about a third of the market.
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