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Global Financial Service Disruptions

Coinbase

crypto exchange · US · North America · Coinbase Global, Inc.

Technical failureStatus: resolvedTier 1Severity 3 of 5Evidence confidence: highAnalyst-verified

The 20 Oct 2025 AWS us-east-1 outage left Coinbase users unable to log in or trade for 3h17m of degraded service, per Coinbase's own retrospective.

First disruption
Oct 20 07:11 UTC
First public signal
Oct 20 (Coinbase status page and Downdetector)
Acknowledged
Oct 20
Restored
Oct 20
Duration
3.28 hours
DFX first recorded
Nov 5 14:58 UTC

What was restricted

tradingonline bankingmobile appScope: institution wide

Users unable to log in or trade; degraded performance for 3 hours 17 minutes (Coinbase retrospective).

Cause, kept in separate layers

What the institution said
AWS us-east-1 regional outage; DynamoDB-dependent services failed
DFX classification
Technical failure (cyber: ruled out)

Dependencies

A dependency is a documented relationship. It is not evidence that the provider was compromised.

  • Provider: Amazon Web Services us-east-1 (cloud hosting), verified

Evidence

Other restrictions at Coinbase