Morpho’s application and API have resumed operations after a disruption caused by an Amazon CloudFront outage that lasted approximately three hours on July 16. The lending protocol confirmed that users could access services once more, while also noting that performance may be temporarily impaired.
Details of the Outage
The incident affected not only Morpho but also several other platforms including Hugging Face and the UK’s National Lottery. During the downtime, users were unable to access the essential web app at app.morpho.org and the API at api.morpho.org. Morpho is known as the second-largest on-chain lending network, trailing only Aave.
Julien Thomas, a principal engineer at Morpho, provided an update stating, “All Morpho services are back and stable. Performance may still be impacted but the app & the API are functioning.” The downtime stemmed from errors reported by Amazon Web Services (AWS), indicating that customers using VPC Origins were impacted by 5xx errors from 12:45 AM to 4:18 AM PDT.
Impact on Users and Other Services
Affected services included not only Morpho but also AI platforms and various gaming services. For instance, players of Bethesda's Fallout 76 encountered issues connecting online. As reported by Amazon, the outage occurred due to a failure in the system that delivers routing configuration to AWS network processors. The problem arose when the internal capacity limit of the fleet handling connections to private VPC origins was reached, preventing updated data from loading properly.
Despite the rapid resolution by AWS, the incident illustrates the vulnerability of cloud-dependent services. Other platforms, such as the tradesea trading platform, had to implement workarounds to maintain functionality during this period.
This material is for informational purposes only and is not financial advice.
