Network issue at AWS data center brings down crypto exchanges
An outage at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center has impacted crypto exchange operations.
As reported by CoinDesk, Binance and KuCoin are among those impacted. Binance said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the problem was being caused by a “temporary network interruption.”
According to the AWS Health Dashboard, the issue has since been resolved.
The dashboard adds that the interruption was caused by “connectivity issues to a subset of EC2 instances in a single Availability Zone (apne1-as4) in the AP-Northeast-1 region.”
“This was the result of an issue in which the primary and secondary power was interrupted to the affected EC2 instances. During this time, customers may also have experienced increased error rates and…
