Amazon AWS outage knocks Coinbase mobile app offline, Robinhood also affected

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In a world where we put our faith in the hands of massive corporations with names like “Amazon” (which, let’s face it, sounds like a jungle with a much better tech department), a Monday outage in one of their data centers sent Coinbase and Robinhood into a tailspin. Because, of course, why trust your financial future to a decentralised system when you can trust a centralized one that can go down at the drop of a hat, right?

Coinbase, that big, shiny centralized cryptocurrency exchange (CEX) that thinks it’s too important to be forgotten, fell victim to an AWS data center hiccup. The issue? “Increased error rates and latencies” in the Northern Virginia region. Translation: everything went as smoothly as a shopping cart with a broken wheel.

With the outage, Coinbase’s mobile app crashed so hard that users reported trouble logging in, placing orders, and-naturally-trying to withdraw their funds. Because who needs their money anyway? Not like they were planning on using it any time soon, right? The Base app (because, of course, they need more apps) was also caught in the chaos.

Meanwhile, AWS casually dropped an update, after about three hours, confirming that “global services and features relying on US-EAST-1 have also recovered.” Good to know that someone is on it, I guess. AWS promised to continue fixing things. Talk about a ‘low priority’ resolution!

Coinbase, ever the optimist, reassured users with a “We’re seeing early signs of recovery” post on X. They also mentioned that the team was working with “top priority,” because nothing screams “urgent” like telling people you’ve made no progress for three hours.

Meanwhile, in the bizarre world of Robinhood, some traders reported execution delays and API issues. As if Amazon’s gigantic cloud machine just decided to go on strike for fun. Crypto trader Kushy (an apparently very philosophical fellow) summed it up nicely: “Amazon down, Robinhood down, Reddit down, McDonald’s down, Fortnite down.” Is there anything that hasn’t fallen to the ground in defeat?

And, just in case you didn’t know, this isn’t the first time AWS has dropped the ball. Six months ago, it caused another delightful mess, affecting at least eight other crypto exchanges. What’s next, Amazon? A power outage? An invasion of locusts?

But why stop at giving up on the entire centralized cloud infrastructure when we could start talking about decentralization? After all, AWS is the lifeblood of centralized exchanges that handle transactions like a well-oiled machine. It’s used by Binance, Coinbase, and even Crypto.com, which is totally not a weird name for a website that deals with your financial future. (Can we trust a website that ends in ‘.com’? Hmmm…)

Enter the idea of decentralization. It’s like a knight in shining armor, promising a world without centralized failures, because who needs one point of failure when you can have many? Vanar Chain, that shiny blockchain-based alternative, launched something called Neutron. It’s basically an AI-native blockchain that promises to store files onchain-no third parties required. Because relying on Amazon was clearly too 2023.

And if you’re not into Neutron, you could always try the Internet Computer protocol, which offers decentralized computing and storage. Because who doesn’t want their cloud services distributed like a puzzle on a rainy day? Filecoin, Akash Network, and Render Network are also joining the party, offering more alternatives for your decentralized delight.

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2025-10-20 14:57