An AWS Northern Virginia data center overheated on Friday, impacting Coinbase trading and prompting cancel-only mode on its markets. The outage caused degraded performance for users while both companies work to restore services and confirm customer funds are safe.
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Microsoft has marked Microsoft 365 business and enterprise services as degraded. The strain comes from servers that became unavailable, not from a rise in traffic, and mailbox access has been affected in the Americas.
Orange and Sosh subscribers across France lost mobile network and internet service starting around 11:20 to 11:30 a.m. Paris time on October 21, according to Frandroid. Orange confirmed disruptions on its mobile network and said its teams are working to restore service; service began returning for some subscribers around 1:30 p.m., but the outage was not fully resolved. Fiber connections appeared unaffected, according to Frandroid and ZoneADSL, though Orange's 4G/5G home boxes were hit. The company has not given a cause.
AWS launched Lambda Web Functions, which run standard HTTP servers on Lambda without rewrites, and made Amazon S3 available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0. EC2 T8i instances also reached São Paulo.
DigiTimes: ByteDance is in advanced talks with MediaTek to buy custom data center chips, and an agreement could come soon, according to people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg first reported the talks, saying a deal would help MediaTek compete with Qualcomm and Broadcom in data centers.
AWS reported Prime Day 2026 metrics including 59 trillion DynamoDB requests and made Claude Haiku 5.5 available, along with Nova 2.5 Sonic and GuardDuty RDS Protection. The updates focus on scale, cost-efficient AI models, and database threat detection.
