Amazon says its North Virginia cloud services are largely back online after an unexpected overheating incident triggered outages across multiple offerings, including Coinbase. It’s the second recent disruption tied to temperature issues at Amazon data centers. The company is working to fully restore capabilities, with analysts expecting several hours before services stabilize completely.
Amazon Web Services reported a northern Virginia data center zone outage linked to high temperatures. The disruption affected services used by CME Group and Coinbase. Coinbase said its trading problems were caused by the AWS outage, while CME pointed to technical and latency issues. AWS is working to restore full service, but an exact timeline hasn’t been shared.
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Amazon Web Services says restoring damaged cloud operations in Bahrain and the UAE will take several months after Iranian drone strikes in early March. The attacks disrupted services, and AWS urged customers to migrate resources and rebuild using backups. The timeline underscores how quickly regional conflict can knock out critical infrastructure and cloud-dependent businesses.
OpenAI’s latest models, including the Codex coding agent, are now accessible through Amazon Bedrock on AWS. The change comes after an update to OpenAI’s contract with Microsoft, opening a direct path for enterprises to build AI agents using OpenAI’s frontier models in the AWS ecosystem. The partnership is aimed at scaling computing capacity and expanding OpenAI’s enterprise reach.
Meta has struck a deal with Amazon’s cloud unit to use its Graviton CPU chips, tapping “tens of millions of cores” for its workloads. Each Graviton chip includes 192 cores, and the system can assign individual cores to different tasks, helping Meta improve flexibility and performance at scale.
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