Morpho restores app and API after suspected AWS CloudFront outage

Morpho has restored its frontend and API after a temporary disruption that its engineering team linked to a possible Amazon Web Services CloudFront outage.

Summary

• Morpho restored its app and API after a suspected AWS CloudFront outage disrupted frontend access.
• The incident affected web infrastructure while Morpho’s onchain lending contracts continued operating independently during disruption.
• Recent integrations have made Morpho infrastructure increasingly important across wallets, exchanges and institutional DeFi products.

Morpho principal engineer Julien reported that app.morpho.org and api.morpho.org were partially unavailable on July 16. He said the team suspected a “potential AWS CloudFront outage” and was working on a way to restore traffic.

Morpho restores services after partial outage

Around three hours later, Julien confirmed in a follow-up update that the affected services had recovered. He said “all Morpho services are back and stable,” although performance could still experience some effects following the disruption.

The outage affected access to Morpho’s application and API rather than triggering a reported failure of its underlying lending contracts. Morpho’s API documentation describes the service as an interface that provides applications with onchain and offchain data about markets, vaults and user positions. The protocol’s lending activity operates through blockchain-based infrastructure separately from that interface.

AWS operates CloudFront as a content delivery network used to deliver websites, applications and APIs. Morpho did not confirm a final root cause in the updates and referred only to a possible CloudFront problem. AWS maintains a public service health dashboard for tracking disruptions and recovery across its infrastructure.

YEET also reports website disruption

YEET co-founder Mando separately said the project’s website had gone offline during the same reported AWS CloudFront disruption. According to the project, the website outage did not affect user assets or funds, while its team worked to restore access.

The incidents show how decentralized applications can still depend on centralized web infrastructure for interfaces and data delivery. A frontend outage can prevent users from accessing a website even when the underlying blockchain and smart contracts remain active.

For users, that distinction means a website becoming unavailable does not automatically mean assets stored in onchain contracts have disappeared. However, disruptions to interfaces and APIs can temporarily make it harder to view positions or interact with protocols through their standard websites.

Morpho’s infrastructure now supports wider DeFi access

The temporary disruption comes as Morpho has expanded its role across several large crypto platforms. As previously reported, Coinbase uses Morpho infrastructure for USDC lending products, with Steakhouse Financial managing vault allocations.

Hardware wallet provider Trezor has also integrated Morpho vaults. Users can access USDC and USDT lending strategies through Trezor Suite while signing transactions on their hardware wallets.

Morpho has attracted traditional financial firms as well. Apollo Global Management agreed to a structure that could see its affiliates acquire up to 90 million MORPHO tokens over 48 months as part of a wider relationship with the protocol.

Recovery limits the immediate disruption

Morpho’s application and API were functioning again following the engineering update. Julien warned that performance could remain affected temporarily but described the services as stable.

No loss of user funds or failure of Morpho’s onchain lending contracts was reported in connection with the event. The disruption instead affected the access layer used by users and developers to interact with protocol data.