Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a minor outage, but there was no impact on Ethereum network nodes even though they largely rely on Amazon\u2019s hosting.<\/p>\n
On June 13, the cloud service provider went down temporarily for around three hours. At 12:08 pm PDT, the company first reported<\/a> it was \u201cinvestigating increased error rates and latencies\u201d in parts of the United States.<\/p>\n Many mainstream news organizations, such as the Associated Press, were affected and unable to publish articles.\u00a0Ethereum advocate Evan Van Ness observed the outage noting that the Ethereum network was not affected.<\/p>\n AWS is down<\/p>\n Ethereum is humming along unaffected <\/p>\n Bitcoin maxis hardest hit pic.twitter.com\/9YGBXRC4CL<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Evan Van Ness (@evan_van_ness) June 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n According<\/a> to Ethernodes, 64.5% of the Ethereum network is reliant on\u00a0Amazon hosting providers.\u00a0<\/p>\n Van Ness added the impact may have been more significant if the outage was in Europe due to the amount of Ether (ETH<\/a>) staked on\u00a0Lido<\/a>, which is currently around 7.1 million or 35% of the total:<\/p>\n \u201cI imagine there would be some effect if AWS went down in Europe given how much of Lido is in the cloud.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ethereum has previously been criticized for centralization due to its reliance on infrastructure provider Infura, which provides network nodes to companies and organizations. Many of these companies, and liquid staking platform Lido, rely heavily on AWS for cloud hosting services.<\/p>\n Related:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>3 cloud providers accounting for over two-thirds of Ethereum nodes<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Around 20 minutes after the discovery of the problem, AWS said that the root cause of the issue was connected to a service called AWS Lambda, which lets customers run code for different types of applications.<\/p>\n Over three hours after AWS went down the company reported that \u201cthe issue has been resolved and all AWS Services are operating normally,\u201d at 3.37 PM PDT.<\/p>\n According<\/a> to the hosting platform Kinsta, AWS has the dominant market share among cloud hosting providers, at 34%.<\/p>\n Magazine:\u00a0Joe Lubin: The truth about ETH founders split and \u2018Crypto Google\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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