# Coinbase Outage Raises Questions About Distributed Backups, Latency, and Resilience During an AWS Thermal Event

DevFeed: [Coinbase Outage Raises Questions About Distributed Backups, Latency, and Resilience During an AWS Thermal Event](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/when-distributed-backup-isn-t-actually-distributed-lessons-from-the-coinbase-outage-17926.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://read.bytesizeddesign.com/p/a-room-got-too-hot-and-coinbase-went>)

Author: Byte-Sized Design

Published: 2026-05-16T19:15:36Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Byte-Sized Design](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/byte-sized-design.md>)

Topics: [coinbase](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coinbase.md>), [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [coinbase](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coinbase.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>)

## AI overview

The article discusses a May 2026 AWS thermal event, a Coinbase outage, the tradeoff between latency and resilience, and the limits of backup systems described as distributed.

## Source excerpt

The May 2026 AWS thermal event, the latency-versus-resilience tradeoff that broke coinbase, and what happens when "distributed backup" isn't actually distributed