Amazon Cloud Outage Hits North Virginia Data Centre, Disrupts Trading
Amazon's cloud unit reported an outage at one of its data centre zones in northern Virginia on Thursday, while derivatives marketplace CME Group and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase said there were issues with their trading platforms. The outage was caused by increased temperatures within a single data centre, according to Amazon.
Coinbase said problems with its platform were caused by the AWS outage, but all markets on its exchange have been re-enabled for trading after it faced performance issues.
CME Group said it has completed essential maintenance work and users are now able to log in to its CME Direct trading platform, but it did not identify the cause of the technical and latency issues.
The court will not resume hearing on this matter, however, AWS said that work to add more cooling capacity which is needed to safely restore the remaining affected systems was taking longer than expected, and it has no timeline for full recovery as of yet.