OKX cites intermittent outage amid Alibaba Cloud equipment anomaly
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Crypto exchange OKX witnessed service disruptions after primary infrastructure provider Alibaba Cloud announced a hardware failure in Alibaba Cloud’s Hong Kong data center.
Alibaba Cloud Hong Kong IDC Zone C server went offline on Saturday at roughly 10 PM ET and failed to recover for over 7 hours at the time of reporting. On-chain data further
In early December, Avalanche blockchain entered into a partnership to power Alibaba Cloud’s Node-as-a-Service initiatives.
APAC’s largest cloud service provider, Alibaba Cloud, has expanded support for #Avalanche!
This integration enables developers to easily launch their own validator nodes, with access to @alibaba_cloud‘s plug-and-play infrastructure and suite of products.https://t.co/MlXTOYuJgG
— Avalanche (@avalancheavax) December 2, 2022
As Cointelegraph reported, the partnership is aimed at developing new tools for launching validator nodes on Avalanche’s public blockchain platform in Asia. The integration will allow Avalanche developers to use Alibaba Cloud’s plug-and-play infrastructure as a service to launch new validators.
During the announcement, it was revealed that Avalanche hosts over 1,200 validators and processes roughly 2 million daily transactions.
