Base, ETH L2 Access Hit by Amazon’s AWS Failure
On the morning of Oct. 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage that cascaded into widespread service disruptions across thousands of websites and applications.
Several large exchanges and crypto-service providers rely heavily on cloud infrastructure like AWS to power their trading platforms, wallets, analytics tools and matching engines.
The ripple effect hit the crypto world: Coinbase reported that its trading platform and its Base layer-2 network both went down. ConsenSys’ Infura and Robinhood similarly suffered during the outage.
Almost immediately, the crypto community took to social media to sound the alarm that some of the industry’s most recognizable companies are too reliant on centralized…
