Major Amazon AWS Outage Affects Coinbase and Robinhood

On the 20th, various online platforms were affected due to an outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing division. In the realm of digital assets, notable disruptions were reported by platforms such as Coinbase and Robinhood. This incident underscores the extensive reliance of global digital services on centralized cloud providers like AWS, and highlights the significant impact that can occur when such a provider experiences downtime. On the day of the outage, the Coinbase support team reported that many users experienced difficulties accessing Coinbase due to the AWS issue.