Coinbase outage extends for over five hours
May 8, 2026
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by Hristina Vasileva
for CryptoPolitan

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AI Overview
Coinbase suffered an outage and degraded performance tied to a specific AWS facility, disrupting CEX trading access and creating immediate liquidity and user trust risks for crypto markets. Incident highlights centralization risk from cloud dependency (AWS); increases pressure on Coinbase for redundancy and incident response and may boost interest in DeFi/DEX alternatives, security and infrastructure upgrades.
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Coinbase suffered an outage and degraded performance, linked to problems with a specific AWS facility.

