AWS Overheating Incident Exposes Cloud Concentration Risks in Northern Virginia

Coinbase Goes Dark for Five Hours After AWS Data Center Overheats in Virginia – CryptoGazette

Millions of Coinbase users woke up on May 8, 2026, to a frozen trading screen. The largest U.S. Crypto exchange went dark for more than five hours after a critical failure at an Amazon Web Services data center knocked out its core infrastructure – and the timing couldn’t have been worse. What Happened: Overheating in Northern Virginia The root cause was an overheating event inside AWS’s US-East-1 region, a major data center campus based in North…

AWS Overheating Incident Exposes Cloud Concentration Risks in Northern Virginia

A single data center in northern Virginia went hot last week. Power failed. Servers shut down automatically. And suddenly trading apps went dark. The Mashable report captured the sequence. A “thermal event resulting in a loss of power” struck one facility inside AWS’s use1-az4 Availability Zone in US-EAST-1. The problem began around 4:20 p.m. PDT on May 7. Within hours it impaired Elastic Compute Cloud instances and degraded Elastic Block Store …