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AWS Outage Disrupts Major Platforms, Highlights Tech Dependency Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced an outage due to overheating at a North Virginia data center, affecting the use1-az4 Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 region. This disruption impacted major platforms, including Coinbase, CME Group, and FanDuel, with Coinbase's core exchange functions down for over five hours. AWS has shifted traffic away from the affected zone and is working on mitigation efforts, though some services like Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon SageMaker remain impacted. AWS has not provided an estimated time for full recovery. The incident underscores the dependency on major tech providers.