The Risks of Centralized Services in Decentralized Projects

Nonetheless, the reliance on AWS is regarding.

Whereas Ethereum itself is a Layer-1 blockchain community (and is subsequently fully decentralized), once we look down the tech stack, nearly all of nodes that run it are reliant on AWS.

The excellent news is that some node operators acknowledge this; and over time, much less and fewer Ethereum nodes use AWS for his or her cloud internet hosting service.

The last word resolution could be for node operators to maneuver over to a decentralized protocol like Web Laptop (ICP – which we did a deep dive on in a latest version of Over The Shoulder).

However till then, let’s hope for extra strikes away from AWS, and fewer outages.