In irony-soaked incident, Amazon data center shuts down due to high temperatures

AWS shut down a major North Virginia data center after it overheated, disrupting cloud traffic and services.

The outage forced traffic rerouting and throttling, with customers including Coinbase experiencing interruptions.

Even after cooling capacity was restored, some users still saw lingering timeouts and degraded service.

The incident shows how vulnerable critical cloud infrastructure can be to heat-related failures.

It also highlights the growing environmental and energy costs of expanding data centers for AI demand.