Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a minor outage, but there was no impact to the Ethereum network nodes, which rely heavily on Amazon hosting.
On June 13, the cloud service provider temporarily stopped working for about three hours. At 12:08 pm PDT, the company first reported it was “investigating higher error rates and latencies” in parts of the United States.
Many major news organizations, such as the Associated Press, were affected and unable to publish articles.
Ethereum advocate Evan Van Ness observed the outage, noting that the Ethereum network was not affected.
AWS is down
Ethereum is buzzing unaffected
Bitcoin maxis are the most affected pic.twitter.com/9YGBXRC4CL
— Evan Van Ness (@evan_van_ness) June 13, 2023
According ethernodes64.5% of the Ethereum network depends on Amazon hosting providers.
Van Ness added that the impact might have been more significant if the outage had occurred in Europe due to the amount of Ether (ETH) staked on Lido, which is currently around 7.1 million or 35% of the total:
“I would imagine there would be some effect if AWS were to fail in Europe given how much Lido is in the cloud.”
Ethereum has previously been criticized for centralization due to its reliance on infrastructure provider Infura, which provides network nodes to businesses and organizations. Many of these companies, and the liquid participation platform Lido, rely heavily on AWS for cloud hosting services.
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Around 20 minutes after the discovery of the problem, AWS said the root cause of the problem was connected to a service called AWS Lambda, which allows customers to run code for different types of applications.
More than three hours after AWS went down, the company reported that “the issue has been resolved and all AWS services are working as normal,” at 3:37 pm PDT.
Depending on the hosting platform Kinstaamong cloud hosting providers, AWS has the dominant 34% market share.
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