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Morpho restores app and API after AWS CloudFront outage
Jul 16, 2026
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by Hannah Collymore
for CryptoPolitan
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Morpho, the second-largest onchain lending protocol after Aave, experienced a multi-hour outage of its web app and API caused by an Amazon CloudFront failure that blocked borrowers and lenders from app.morpho.org and api.morpho.org. Services have been restored, but the interruption highlights centralized cloud dependency and operational risk for DeFi crypto lending, which could hurt user trust and adoption.
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Morpho has confirmed that its web app and API came back online following a partial outage that it blamed on an Amazon CloudFront failure. The Amazon downtime took out the second-largest onchain lending network, behind only Aave, for several hours, during which borrowers and lenders could not reach the app.morpho.org and api.morpho.org portals. Morpho is...
