A full recovery is still expected to take several hours. Key Points
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been experiencing operational issues since Thursday evening, originating from a thermal control anomaly at a facility in Virginia. The outage at this leading cloud service provider has impacted major trading platforms FanDuel and Coinbase. In its latest update, AWS stated that a complete overall recovery is still expected to take several hours.
The global leading cloud service provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has been experiencing operational failures since Thursday, disrupting trading services on platforms including Coinbase and FanDuel. AWS issued its latest update at 9:51 AM ET on Friday, stating that a complete overall recovery is still expected to take several hours. This outage originated from equipment overheating issues at a data center in Northern Virginia, part of the AWS US-East-1 region, with the failure concentrated within a single Availability Zone in that region. AWS stated in its update: "We are urgently bringing additional cooling capacity online. Once that capacity is in place, we will begin recovering the remaining affected hardware in the impacted Availability Zone." AWS is also working to restore affected EC2 cloud server instances (which provide virtual server computing resources). The AWS Health Dashboard first posted a notice at 8:25 PM ET on Thursday, stating it was "investigating increased error rates for EC2 instances." AWS has not provided further comment since then. Platform Impact At 9 PM ET on Thursday, the sports betting application FanDuel posted on social platform X that its team had noticed technical issues on the platform preventing users from logging in and using it normally, and that it was urgently investigating. Two hours later, FanDuel updated its announcement, confirming the issue was related to the widespread AWS outage; numerous users complained of betting losses due to being unable to settle or withdraw funds on the platform. The cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase also stated on X on Friday that failures across multiple AWS Availability Zones caused prolonged disruptions to its core trading services, adding that the primary issues have now been fully resolved. AWS holds approximately one-third of the global cloud infrastructure market share, providing cloud services to millions of businesses.
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