Amazon Web Services' data center outage entered its second day on Friday, and Amazon said full recovery was still expected to take several hours. The disruption centered on the US-EAST-1 Region, where problems spread across the internet and left recovery unfinished.
Amazon's 12:29 p.m. PT update
Amazon said in its most recent update at 12:29 p.m. PT that recovery efforts were underway. The company also said its efforts are slower than we had previously anticipated.
Amazon said, “Full recovery is still expected to take several hours.”
AWS problems surged twice
DownDetector showed a spike in AWS problem reports starting around 8 p.m. ET on Thursday. User error reports then slowed into Friday before spiking again around 4 p.m. ET.
That pattern suggests the outage was not a one-time glitch. It was still producing fresh complaints well into Friday, which is why the recovery estimate matters for anyone whose service depends on AWS-hosted systems.
Coinbase and FanDuel felt it
CNBC reported that the outage temporarily shut down trading on FanDuel and Coinbase. Chartbeat also experienced issues and attributed them to AWS outages.
Coinbase said on May 7 that it experienced service disruptions due to increased temperatures in the affected AWS service. The company added, “Our team is working to implement a fix and will continue to provide updates.”
Coinbase also told users, “Your funds are safe.”
For affected users, the immediate question is whether the service they rely on has restored normal operations or is still waiting on Amazon's several-hour recovery window. The outage's return after an early slowdown makes the US-EAST-1 Region the place to watch next, especially after the last major disruption there in October 2025.
