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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.