AWS experienced outages in the US, but Ethereum kept humming

Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a small blackout, but there was no considerable influence on Ethereum network nodes despite the fact that they mostly depend on Amazons hosting.On June 13, the cloud company decreased briefly for around three hours. At 12:08 pm PDT, the company first reported it was “investigating increased mistake rates and latencies” in parts of the United States.Many mainstream wire service, such as the Associated Press, were affected and not able to publish posts. Ethereum supporter Evan Van Ness observed the failure noting that the Ethereum network was not affected.AWS is downEthereum is humming along unaffected Bitcoin maxis hardest struck pic.twitter.com/9YGBXRC4CL— Evan Van Ness (@evan_van_ness) June 13, 2023

Such high reliance on AWS is a worrying indication for the decentralization of the network and a much wider interruption would have resulted in a shock for the Ethereum network.Distribution of Ethereum nodes from web service providers.” Ethereum has actually previously been criticized for centralization due to its reliance on infrastructure service provider Infura, which supplies network nodes to companies and business.