Coinbase released a postmortem report on the major service outage that occurred on May 7, stating that the issue was triggered by a cooling system failure at an AWS data center in the US East region. This caused cabinet overheating protection shutdowns, impacting multiple internet services. The incident led to interruptions in Coinbase's core functions like trading, deposits, and withdrawals for about 8 hours, with full recovery taking approximately 12 hours. Coinbase acknowledged that the event exposed shortcomings in its cross-availability zone auto-switching and middleware disaster recovery capabilities. Moving forward, they plan to upgrade their cross-region hot standby architecture, enhance failure drills, and expand their Kafka system deployment from two availability zones to three. https://(wublock123.com)/news/coinbase-may-outage-postmortem-aws-failure-8-hours-61993