Coinbase’s AWS Outage Exposed a Backup Failure Most Companies Don’t Know They Have

When AWS went down in a single availability zone this May, Coinbase’s exchange went down with it — and their failover, the safety net they were counting on, didn’t work as expected. In this breakdown, we cover what went wrong, what could have prevented it, and what Coinbase’s options are now.

This is exactly the kind of coverage gap that 24/7 database monitoring and disaster recovery planning exist to catch — before it becomes a public outage. As a database services provider, Solvaria helps companies avoid single points of failure like this through regular DR testing, database monitoring, and DBA support that covers the hours your in-house team can’t.

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In this video:

• 00:00 The outage
• 00:07 What went wrong
• 00:30 What could have prevented it
• 00:52 What are Coinbase’s options now

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