In brief
- Coinbase users reported widespread issues with trading, fund transfers, and the mobile app on Thursday night.
- The exchange said AWS failures in the US-EAST-1 region affected multiple availability zones and disrupted core trading services.
- Downdetector data showed reports spiking around 6 p.m. ET.
Coinbase users faced hours of service disruptions late Thursday and into early Friday after failures tied to Amazon Web Services infrastructure disrupted core trading systems, the cryptocurrency exchange said.
In a post on X Friday morning, Coinbase said the outage began around 8 p.m. ET on Thursday afternoon, after its systems detected elevated error rates across multiple services.
“Around 8 p.m. ET, Coinbase systems detected elevated…
