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AWS data center outage hits trading on Fanduel, Coinbase — recovery to take hours

Cnbc · · 267 words · By Lola Murti
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What to know about AWS data center outage hits trading on Fanduel, Coinbase — recovery to take hours

Amazon Web Services, a leading cloud provider, started reporting operational issues on Thursday that affected trading on platforms including Coinbase and FanDuel.

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What happened

Amazon Web Services, a leading cloud provider, started reporting operational issues on Thursday that affected trading on platforms including Coinbase and FanDuel.

Why it matters

"Full recovery is still expected to take several hours," AWS wrote in its latest update at 9:51 a.m.

Common ground

According to AWS, the outage was tied to overheating at a data center in its main US-East-1 region hosted in northern Virginia.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “AWS accounts for about a third of the market for cloud infrastructure technology, providing services for millions of companies.”
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Claim 2: “AWS said issues were in a "single Availability Zone" in the region.”
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Web search results confirm the issue was limited to a single Availability Zone (specifically use1-az4) in the US-EAST-1 region.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis. Clie…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a timeline of Amazon Web Services, which offers a suite of cloud computing services that make up an on-demand computing platform.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ) is a large area of land in the United States designated as a radio quiet zone, in which radio transmissions are restricted by law to facilitate scientific research…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Q…
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Claim 3: “The platform wrote in its post that the primary issue has been fully resolved.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support this claim.
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Claim 4: “The AWS health dashboard first posted at 8:25 p.m. ET Thursday that it was "investigating instance impairments."”
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While some evidence mentions the AWS Health Dashboard and 'impairments', none of the provided sources confirm the specific timestamp of 8:25 p.m. ET Thursday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2023 NFL season was the 104th season of the National Football League (NFL). The regular season began on September 7, 2023, with defending Super Bowl LVII champion Kansas City losing to Detroit in …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hurricane Helene ( heh-LEEN) was a powerful and devastating tropical cyclone that caused widespread catastrophic damage and numerous fatalities across the Southeastern United States in late September…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From September 17 through September 22, 2025, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and its corporate parent, the Walt Disney Company, suspended production of the late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel L…
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Claim 5: “AWS said it's working to resolve impaired EC2 instances, which provide virtual server capacity.”
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Multiple sources confirm that EC2 instances and EBS volumes in the affected zone were impaired due to the thermal event/power loss.
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web search NEUTRAL — This impacted 7.5 per cent of EC2 instances and EBS volumes in the Availability Zone. Power was fully restored to the impacted data center at 0745 PDT. By 1045 PDT, all but one per cent of instances h…
https://www.theregister.com/2019/09/04/aws_power_outage_data…
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web search NEUTRAL — EC2 instances and EBS volumes hosted on impacted hardware are affected by the loss of power during the thermal event. Other AWS services that depend on the affected EC2 instances and EBS volumes in th…
https://www.7globe.in/coinbase-reports-service-issues-points…
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web search NEUTRAL — Você especifica um valor para a propriedade Tags em seu modelo do CloudFormation. O usuário do AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), o perfil do IAM ou o perfil de serviço do CloudFormation não tê…
https://repost.aws/pt/knowledge-center/cloudformation-iam-ta…
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Claim 6: “Amazon Web Services, a leading cloud provider, started reporting operational issues on Thursday that affected trading on platforms including Coinbase and FanDuel.”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that AWS experienced operational issues on a Thursday that impacted both Coinbase and FanDuel.
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web search NEUTRAL — Amazon Web Services, a leading cloud provider, started reporting operational issues on Thursday that affected trading on platforms including Coinbase and FanDuel.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/aws-outage-data-center-fandu…
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web search NEUTRAL — Coinbase (COIN) reported a multi-hour disruption to crypto trading on Thursday, which the Nasdaq-listed exchange attributed to an outage at Amazon Web Services. The incident drew criticism as ...
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/05/08/coinbase-disrup…
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web search NEUTRAL — AWS says an overheating issue at its Northern Virginia data center has disrupted trading on Coinbase and impacted other major platforms, including FanDuel.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/aws-data-center-overheating-i…
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Claim 7: “According to AWS, the outage was tied to overheating at a data center in its main US-East-1 region hosted in northern Virginia.”
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Three independent web sources confirm the outage was caused by overheating at a data center in Northern Virginia within the US-EAST-1 region.
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web search NEUTRAL — Amazon Web Services (AWS) has confirmed a recent outage that impacted customers was caused by overheating at a North Virginia data center. The disruption affected one of AWS' six Availability Zones, u…
https://www.itpro.com/infrastructure/aws-outage-explained-ma…
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web search NEUTRAL — Northern Virginia data center overheating knocked out crypto trading on the same day Coinbase announced brutal Q1 2026 earnings and 14% workforce cuts.
https://www.techloy.com/aws-outage-takes-coinbase-offline-fo…
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web search NEUTRAL — Overheating At Northern Virginia Data Centre Disrupts Core Systems. Amazon Web Services confirmed that elevated temperatures in one of its data centres led to impaired operations within Availability Z…
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Claim 8: “Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase also posted on X Friday that failures in multiple AWS zones "caused an extended outage of core trading services."”
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Claim 9: “The company posted an update two hours later that the issue was tied to a broader AWS outage”
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No evidence was provided that confirms a specific update from FanDuel two hours after 9:00 p.m. ET linking the issue to AWS.
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web search NEUTRAL — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's leading cloud platform, provides EC2 virtual servers, S3 storage, Lambda serverless computing, RDS databases and CloudFront for scalable enterprise infrastructure a…
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web search NEUTRAL — Amazon says AWS cloud service is back to normal after outage disrupts businesses worldwide. A global AWS outage disrupted thousands of websites and apps, including major platforms like Snapchat and Re…
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web search NEUTRAL — Amazon Web Services initially sent out a statement Monday morning after addressing the DNS issue, noting that its systems were recovering. Yet it quickly had to walk that back a few hours later after …
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Claim 10: “"Full recovery is still expected to take several hours," AWS wrote in its latest update at 9:51 a.m. ET on Friday.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of generic AWS marketing pages and unrelated Wikipedia entries about Friday prayer and Islamic history. No evidence confirms the specific quote or timestamp.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Friday prayer, or congregational prayer (Arabic: صلاة الجمعة, romanized: ṣalāt al-jumuʿa), is the meeting together of Muslims for communal prayer and a service at midday every Friday. In Islam, the da…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Hijrah, (Arabic: الهجرة, romanized: al-Hijrah, lit. 'migration') also Hegira (from Medieval Latin), was the journey the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers took from Mecca to Medina. The ye…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tamīm ibn Aws al-Dārī (Arabic: تميم بن أوس الداري, died 661) was a companion of Muhammad and an early convert from Christianity to Islam. In Islamic eschatology he is known for encountering Dajjal dur…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamim_al-Dari
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Claim 11: “At 9:00 p.m. ET Thursday, sports-betting app FanDuel posted on X that its team was "aware and investigating the current technical difficulties prohibiting users from accessing our platform."”
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The search results for FanDuel are unrelated (discussing pricing errors and NBA predictions) and do not contain the specific X post at 9:00 p.m. ET regarding technical difficulties.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025–26 NBA season is the 80th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The regular season began on October 21, 2025 and ended on April 12, 2026. The third edition of the in-season NBA…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Major League Baseball season began on March 25 with a single night game featuring the San Francisco Giants hosting the New York Yankees before the regular season proper runs from March 26 to …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026–27 NBA season is the upcoming 81st season of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The regular season is expected to begin in October 2026, and end in April 2027. The fourth edition of t…
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