Coinbase Hit by 7-Hour Outage Blamed on AWS Data Center Issue

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Coinbase experienced a seven-hour outage traced to an issue at an Amazon Web Services data center, taking the cryptocurrency exchange offline during active trading hours. The incident highlights the concentration risk of crypto exchanges depending on single cloud providers and raises questions about infrastructure resilience as crypto trading volumes grow. AWS infrastructure failures affecting financial services continue to be a recurring pattern.