AWS was hit by overheating in northern Virginia, knocking Coinbase offline and rattling CME
A single data centre’s cooling system fell behind. AWS shifted traffic away from the affected zone and warned that fully restoring the remaining services would take longer than expected.
Amazon Web Services said on Thursday that one of its data centres in northern Virginia was running hot enough to disrupt customer workloads, and that engineers were still bringing the site fully back online when most users had gone to bed for the night.
The trigger was prosaic: increased temperatures inside a single data centre, attributed to a cooling-system shortfall, forced AWS to throttle and then partly reroute traffic away from the affected Availability Zone.
By the company’s account, additional cooling capacity began coming online a couple of hours after the first impact reports, and “early signs of recovery” appeared shortly after.
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