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Fortune
Ben Weiss

Coinbase, Robinhood down as Amazon outage briefly cripples the internet

A photo of the AWS logo. (Credit: Matthias Balk—picture alliance/Getty Images)

A widespread internet outage continues to affect the crypto exchange Coinbase and the online brokerage Robinhood on Monday, among other websites like Snapchat and Hulu. The brief pause in both platforms’ services came after Amazon’s cloud computing arm reported that its services were down in northern Virginia. “We continue to investigate the root cause for the network connectivity issues,” wrote Amazon Web Services (AWS) late Monday morning. 

Coinbase acknowledged the impact of the AWS outage on its services. “Many online services, including Coinbase, experienced issues,” a spokesperson said in a statement to Fortune. “Coinbase services have recovered. Some older asset transfer requests are still pending, which we are investigating.” 

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