AWS went down in the US, but Ethereum kept humming
Ethereum hummed along through the latest AWS outage but one commentator said its reliance on Lido for staking could cause issues in the future. Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a minor outage but there was no impact on Ethereum network nodes which largely rely on Amazon’s hosting. On June 13, the cloud service provider went down temporarily for around three hours. At 12:08 PM PDT, the company first 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 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 humming along unaffected Bitcoin maxis hardest hit pic.twitter.com/9YGBXRC4CL — Evan Van Ness (@evan_van_ness) June 13, 2023 According to Ethernodes, 64.5% of the Ethereum network is reliant on Amazon hosting providers. Distribution of Ethereum nodes ...