Amazon Cloud Service Major impact: affected by Coinbase, dYdX, etc.

During December 7 Eastern Standard Time, Amazon's cloud service was severely damaged, disrupting some websites and services.

The report on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) incident page indicates that there is an issue with some APIs and the AWS Management Console. These issues affect the US-East-1 metropolitan area hosted by AWS in Northern Virginia, so not all users are perfect. problems with you. An error has occurred. The report states, "An API and console issue has occurred in the US-EAST-1 region. A cause has been identified and we are working to improve it."

Following this incident, dYdX ceased trading for several hours.

dYdX said that now dYdX has set the order for the last mode only. Orders submitted before the downtime will be canceled or terminated immediately. However, the results obtained (including if the order is complete) are still unlikely to occur. Currently, dYdX decides to move some key services from ECS to EC2.

Additionally, services that have suffered from the conflict include the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange and the Robinhood equity and cryptocurrency trading platform.

As the world's largest cloud infrastructure provider, AWS controls 32% of the global market by the third quarter of 2021. Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, meanwhile, hold 21% and 8% of the market, respectively.

This is not the first time that AWS has failed.

On February 19 of this year, AWS Electric took over the trading, withdrawal and deposit services of various cryptocurrency exchanges such as Huobi, Binance, and Kubi.

On November 25, 2020, the Northern Virginia data center experienced a long downturn, resulting in some service disruptions. Coinbase is one of the apps affected.