Coinbase Trading Down for More Than Two Hours After AWS Outage

Coinbase’s exchange experienced more than two hours of trading outages and degraded performance on May 8 after an Amazon Web Services infrastructure failure. The interruption began during U.S. morning hours and affected users worldwide who could not place trades or access accounts.

Coinbase posted on its status page that ‘some users may be unable to trade or experience degraded performance,’ and noted its development team was actively working on the issue. The company did not provide a timeline for full service restoration.

The disruption traced to an AWS infrastructure outage. Coinbase uses AWS for parts of its backend, and regional problems at the cloud provider affected services that rely on the same cloud regions.

Customers reported they could not execute orders or access open positions. Some also experienced slow page loads and failed withdrawal attempts while the exchange’s systems were impaired.

Interrupted access can prevent intended trade entries, stop-loss executions or withdrawals.

The outage came shortly after Coinbase reported first-quarter 2026 results. The company reported it purchased $88 million of bitcoin during the quarter. Chief Financial Officer Alesia Haas confirmed on the earnings call that the exchange’s contract with Circle for the USDC stablecoin automatically renews every three years and cannot be terminated.

Coinbase experienced repeated outages during the 2021 market surge and has said it made infrastructure improvements since. As of the latest update, engineers were investigating the root cause linked to the AWS issue and working to restore normal operations. Users were directed to the status page for updates.