"AWS engineers were forced to throttle their services and then reroute customer traffic to other facilities, affecting customers like the crypto platform Coinbase, which experienced an "extended outage of core trading services.""
"Things hadn't improved by Friday morning, and Amazon refused to give an estimate as to when the issue would be resolved. "We are actively working to bring additional cooling system capacity online, which will enable us to recover the remaining affected hardware in the impacted zone," AWS said in an update."
"Though the issue was said to have been resolved by 11:30am on Friday, an "ongoing issue" in the company's north Virginia region was still causing timeouts on some AWS services more than an hour later."
"Full data center outages are "extremely uncommon," and issues with data center cooling systems are "even rarer." "You need to be up more than 99.99 percent of the time sometimes," Metwon told the press agency."
A major AWS data center in north Virginia overheated and was shut down. AWS engineers throttled services and rerouted customer traffic to other facilities, affecting customers including Coinbase, which reported an extended outage of core trading services. By Friday morning, AWS still did not provide a resolution estimate. AWS stated it was working to bring additional cooling system capacity online to recover remaining affected hardware in the impacted zone. Although the issue was reported resolved by 11:30am, an ongoing problem in the north Virginia region continued to cause timeouts on some AWS services more than an hour later. Cooling-related failures were described as extremely uncommon, and data centers were noted for their carbon footprint and local temperature impacts.
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