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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

Coinbase halted trading for about seven hours on 8 May 2026 after an AWS availability zone overheated; its status page logged the incident at 6h50m. It was Coinbase's second AWS-linked outage since October 2025.

First disruption
May 8
First public signal
May 8 (Coinbase status page)
Acknowledged
May 8
Restored
May 8
Duration
6.83 hours
DFX first recorded
Nov 5 14:58 UTC

What was restricted

tradingtransfers outScope: institution wide

Trading disabled across markets and transfers slowed for about seven hours; markets re-enabled progressively.

Cause, kept in separate layers

What the institution said
Overheating in AWS Availability Zone use1-az4
DFX classification
Technical failure (cyber: ruled out)
Wording used
your funds are safe
Conflicting reports
Some reports describe a four-hour outage; status page says 6h50m.

Dependencies

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

  • Provider: Amazon Web Services us-east-1 (use1-az4) (cloud hosting), verified

Evidence

Other restrictions at Coinbase