{"id":126496,"date":"2026-05-08T15:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/aws-data-center-outage-affects-trading-on-fanduel-coinbase\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:31:35","slug":"aws-data-center-outage-affects-trading-on-fanduel-coinbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/aws-data-center-outage-affects-trading-on-fanduel-coinbase\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS data center outage affects trading on Fanduel, Coinbase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-108234845\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Mateusz Slodkowski | Sopa Images | LightRocket | getty images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p><span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\">Amazon<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>    Leading cloud provider Web Services on Thursday started reporting operational issues, impacting business on the platforms <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-2\">coinbase<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>    And FanDuel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A full recovery is still expected to take several hours,&#8221; AWS wrote in its article. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/health.aws.amazon.com\/health\/status\">latest updates<\/a> Friday at 9:51 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>According to AWS, the outage was linked to overheating in a data center in its main US-East-1 region located in Northern Virginia. 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