A major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud computing platform used by many online services, has caused widespread disruptions to cryptocurrency trading platforms. The irony wasn’t lost on users, who pointed out that decentralized communities were affected by the centralized failure. OpenSea, a leading exchange for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), was severely impacted, with users unable to load images of popular digital art collections.
The outage has also hit other major players in the crypto industry, including Coinbase and Robinhood, which experienced connectivity issues due to the AWS problem. Users took to social media to express their frustration, highlighting that many cryptocurrency services rely on a single point of failure – AWS.
Source: https://futurism.com/future-society/aws-outage-bored-apes