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Today’s AWS outages have caused problems for Coinbase, bringing persistent outages to its Advanced trading platform and other core functions. The team hasn’t declared the problem over yet. Although Base aims for decentralization, these issues reveal some key weak points in Coinbase’s centralization. All leading non-stablecoin tokens on Base have declined in value since the difficulties began. AWS Outages Strike Coinbase AWS (Amazon Web Services) has been down this morning, wreaking havoc on websites all across the internet. This has highlighted the need for decentralized online infrastructure, ostensibly making a great case for crypto. However, Coinbase isn’t benefitting, as the AWS outages are disrupting some of its systems: Sponsored Sponsored We are currently experiencing service disruptions on Coinbase Advanced trading. Our team is actively investigating and working to restore service, which is being impacted by the ongoing AWS outage. We apologize for the interruption. — Coinbase Traders (@coinbasetraders) October 20, 2025 Specifically, Coinbase Advanced, the exchange’s premium trading platform, has experienced intermittent issues due to the AWS problem. These outages have been going on for over two hours, yet the team hasn’t officially declared the problem resolved. A look at Coinbase’s status page claims that Advanced is working normally, but other core functions are still on the fritz. Considering that engineers haven’t ruled out additional outages on this particular platform, these problems might persist for a while. Ongoing Coinbase Outages. Source: Coinbase Could Decentralization Fix This? After Coinbase announced the outages, the community response has been somewhat prickly. Although Base, the exchange’s blockchain, is ostensibly supposed to be decentralized, its services load isn’t balanced across multiple cloud vendors, and its servers are localized geographically. Since Coinbase’s outages began, all leading non-stablecoin assets on Base have depreciated in value. To be clear, most of these price drops are pretty minor. Synthetix…

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