Coinbase Says Outage ‘Unacceptable’ as CEO Weighs Speed-Resilience Tradeoffs

Coinbase is reviewing its exchange infrastructure after an AWS data center cooling failure knocked several trading services offline, blocked some account access, and delayed customer balance displays. CEO Brian Armstrong called the outage “unacceptable” and said Coinbase will revisit tradeoffs around speed, co-location, and faster recovery during infrastructure failures. Armstrong Says Resilience Tradeoffs Will Be