CryptoBearishBlockonomi · 5h ago7/10
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Coinbase CEO Confirms AWS Cooling Fault Downed Exchange, Pledges Latency-Resilience Trade-Off Review
AWS infrastructure failures at a data center caused Coinbase's exchange to go offline, exposing a critical architectural vulnerability. The exchange prioritized low-latency trading over redundancy and fault tolerance, leaving it exposed to single-point-of-failure risks that competing platforms with distributed architectures would have withstood.