AWS Data Center Outage Disrupts Major Trading Platforms
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An outage at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in Virginia began Thursday night, significantly disrupting trading on platforms like FanDuel and Coinbase. The outage, caused by overheating, is expected to take several hours for full recovery, leading to lost bets for FanDuel users and a nearly seven-hour trading halt for Coinbase.
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FanDuel users experienced lost bets due to inaccessibility during the outage.
Coinbase resumed trading after a nearly seven-hour outage affecting all transactions.
The outage was linked to a thermal issue at a single AWS Availability Zone.
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