Coinbase, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume, experienced a significant service disruption Friday morning after an outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud infrastructure provider underpinning the platform, knocked out trading access for a significant portion of its user base.

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The company’s official status page noted that some users may be unable to trade or experience degraded performance, and that its dev team was actively investigating the matter.

AWS, a subsidiary of Amazon and one of the world’s leading cloud computing providers, serves as critical backend infrastructure for a wide range of financial services companies, including many of the world’s top crypto exchanges. When AWS experiences regional disruptions, the effects cascade rapidly across platforms dependent on its services.

The timing was particularly jarring. Coinbase had just wrapped a strong Q1 2026 earnings call, during which it emerged that the exchange bought $88 million worth of bitcoin during the quarter. Chief Financial Officer Alesia Haas also confirmed on the same call that Coinbase’s USDC contract with stablecoin issuer Circle auto-renews every three years into perpetuity and cannot be terminated, underscoring just how deeply the exchange’s revenue model is tied to stablecoin infrastructure.

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For retail traders, extended exchange downtime carries real financial consequences. On days when crypto assets are moving sharply, even a 30-minute window of inaccessibility can mean missed entries, failed stop-losses, or unintended portfolio exposure. Social media lit up Friday with users reporting they could not access their accounts or execute open positions.

During the 2021 bull run, Coinbase went down repeatedly under enormous traffic surges, incidents that prompted widespread criticism from traders and renewed calls for the company to invest more aggressively in its infrastructure resilience.

Coinbase has not issued a formal post-mortem or confirmed full service restoration as of this writing. Users are advised to check the status page for the latest updates.

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