AWS went down in the US, but Ethereum kept humming

Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a insignificant outage but determination was nary interaction connected Ethereum web nodes which mostly trust connected Amazon’s hosting.

On June 13, the unreality work supplier went down temporarily for astir 3 hours. At 12:08 PM PDT, the institution archetypal reported it was “investigating accrued mistake rates and latencies” successful parts of the United States.

Many mainstream quality organizations specified arsenic the Associated Press were affected and incapable to people articles.

Ethereum advocator Evan Van Ness observed the outage noting that the Ethereum web was not affected.

— Evan Van Ness (@evan_van_ness) June 13, 2023

According to Ethernodes, 64.5% of the Ethereum web is reliant on Amazon hosting providers.

Distribution of Ethereum nodes from web work providers. Source: Ethernodes

Van Ness added the interaction whitethorn person been much important if the outage was successful Europe owed to the magnitude of Ether (ETH) staked on Lido, which is presently astir 7.1 cardinal oregon 35% of the total:

“I ideate determination would beryllium immoderate effect if AWS went down successful Europe fixed however overmuch of Lido is successful the cloud.”

Ethereum has antecedently been criticized for centralization owed to its reliance connected infrastructure supplier Infura which provides web nodes to companies and organizations. Many of these companies, and liquid staking level Lido, trust heavy connected AWS for unreality hosting services

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Around 20 minutes aft the find of the occupation AWS said the basal origin of the contented was connected to a work called AWS Lambda, which lets customers tally codification for antithetic types of applications.

Over 3 hours aft AWS went down the institution reported that “the contented has been resolved and each AWS Services are operating normally,” astatine 3.37 PM PDT.

According to hosting platform Kinsta, among unreality hosting providers, AWS has the ascendant marketplace stock of 34%.

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