POPA ReconA postmortem of our May 7, 2026 outage
A postmortem of our May 7, 2026 outage A localized AWS data center cooling failure triggered a thermal shutdown, which caused a multi-hour platform outage because Coinbase lacked automated cross-zone failover for its single-location matching engine. Coinbase is resolving this by implementing warm cross-zone standbys and migrating infrastructure to a 3-AZ deployment https://www.coinbase.com/en-sg/blog/a-postmortem-of-our-may-7-2026-outage
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