CEO Coinbase: reconsider the trade-offs in architecture, significantly reduce downtime.

Coinbase confirms a service outage yesterday, caused directly by multiple cooling devices at an AWS data center failing simultaneously, resulting in a server room overheating.

CEO Brian Armstrong stated that most of Coinbase’s systems still have redundancy to withstand failures in a single region, and these layers remained operational during the recent incident. However, the centralized platform was still affected because its architecture is optimized for low latency and customers place their machines close to the system.

Armstrong said that such a structure makes it difficult to balance maintaining low latency while increasing fault tolerance at the regional readiness level. Coinbase will review these trade-offs, aiming to at least significantly reduce downtime if a switch to another region is necessary.

He also thanked the AWS and Coinbase teams for working through the night and said the company will publish additional technical details later. There are currently no further details on the scale of the impact on users.

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