AWS went down in the US, but Ethereum kept humming

According to Ethernodes, 64.5% of the Ethereum network is reliant on Amazon hosting providers.Distribution of Ethereum nodes from web service suppliers. Numerous of these business, and liquid staking platform Lido, rely heavily on AWS for cloud hosting servicesRelated: 3 cloud suppliers accounting for over two-thirds of Ethereum nodesAround 20 minutes after the discovery of the issue AWS said the root cause of the concern was linked to a service called AWS Lambda, which lets clients run code for various types of applications.Over 3 hours after AWS went down the business reported that “the issue has been solved and all AWS Services are running typically,” at 3.37 PM PDT.According to hosting platform Kinsta, among cloud hosting providers, AWS has the dominant market share of 34%.

Amazon Web Provider (AWS) suffered a minor failure however there was no effect on Ethereum network nodes which mainly depend on Amazons hosting.On June 13, the cloud company went down momentarily for around 3 hours. At 12:08 PM PDT, the business initially reported it was “investigating increased error rates and latencies” in parts of the United States.Many mainstream news organizations such as the Associated Press were impacted and not able to release articles.Ethereum advocate Evan Van Ness observed the failure keeping in mind that the Ethereum network was not affected.AWS is downEthereum is humming along untouched Bitcoin maxis hardest struck pic.twitter.com/9YGBXRC4CL— Evan Van Ness (@evan_van_ness) June 13, 2023