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  • AWS Data Center Outage Disrupts Trading on FanDuel, Coinbase

    A significant AWS outage, caused by a cooling system failure in a Virginia data center, disrupted major platforms like Coinbase and FanDuel. The prolonged downtime, attributed to overheating in a crucial US-East-1 region, highlights the extensive reliance on cloud infrastructure and the substantial economic and operational impacts of such disruptions. AWS is actively working to restore cooling systems and affected hardware.

    15 hours ago