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AWS says data center overheating in North Virginia disrupts services; Coinbase impacted

By Thomson Reuters May 7, 2026 | 9:10 PM

May 7 (Reuters) – Amazon’s cloud unit, Amazon Web Services, ​said on Thursday ‌it was working to restore normal temperatures at a data ‌center ​in North ⁠Virginia after overheating ⁠disrupted some services.

The incident caused a power loss that ​affected certain hardware, AWS said, adding ⁠that ⁠services reliant on ​the impacted data center ​could experience “impairments”.

Coinbase said its ‌customers may be experiencing degraded performance due to ⁠the AWS outage. The cryptocurrency exchange assured customers that ⁠funds ‌remain safe ⁠and that it ​is ‌investigating the issue.

(Reporting ​by ⁠Mrinmay Dey in Mexico City, Rhea Rose Abraham in Bengaluru; Editing by Sumana ​Nandy)