AWS Outage Disrupts Coinbase and Robinhood Services
An AWS outage in the US-EAST-1 region disrupted numerous services, including Coinbase and Robinhood, highlighting the crypto industry's reliance on centralized cloud providers.Summary
A significant outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the US-EAST-1 region, stemming from a DNS resolution failure, impacted a wide range of services on October 20, 2025. The issue, which began at 3:11 AM Eastern Time, affected major platforms like Coinbase, Robinhood, Fortnite, Snapchat, and even Amazon’s own services. Coinbase and Robinhood experienced app crashes and trading disruptions, while other companies faced connectivity issues and service failures. While most services were restored by 6:35 AM, the outage underscored the vulnerability of centralized infrastructure and the crypto industry’s dependence on AWS. Experts estimate the financial impact could reach hundreds of billions of dollars, and the event raises questions about the need for more resilient and decentralized infrastructure within the crypto space to avoid future disruptions.
(Source：Brave New Coin)