Second AWS Outage Reported In a Week – Is Your Crypto Safe?
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reportedly suffered another outage today, after its major disruption just 10 days ago on October 20. Many platforms relying on AWS have reported operational issues to some extent. With these continuous disruptions, the crypto community is facing a critical concern. How secure are blockchain networks and digital assets if major servers go out and remain offline for a notable time? Sponsored Sponsored AWS is Critical Web3 Plumbing — Even If People Forget That Despite “decentralization” being a core principle of blockchain, most of the Web3 stack is not fully decentralized. The majority of critical infrastructure — RPC endpoints, APIs, exchange frontends, analytics dashboards, price feeds, even wallet services — run on centralized cloud providers, especially AWS US-East-1. Infura, Alchemy, QuickNode, Ankr, and many node-hosting services run large clusters on AWS. Many exchanges, custodians, and wallets depend on AWS for compute and data storage. Notably, the Ethereum mainnet itself remains decentralized. However, access to it (RPC gateways and APIs) often flows through centralized infrastructure. When AWS fails, as it did twice this month, it disrupts access layers, not the blockchain itself. But for everyday users, that’s indistinguishable from “the blockchain being down.” So, the networks remain secure, but user access becomes bottlenecked through centralized infrastructure points. Sponsored Sponsored Post-mortem reveals: Solana leads all major crypto networks in performance during the AWS outage, with no throughput impact Additionally, Solana is #1 in resilience with by far the lowest % of stake residing in AWS pic.twitter.com/KjFM8ei7jA — Solana (@solana) October 22, 2025 Crypto’s Biggest Fragility is Centralized Access to Decentralized Systems During the October 20 outage, MetaMask and Uniswap users experienced connectivity failures because RPC endpoints timed out. Also, NFT marketplaces and data oracles saw delayed updates. Some DeFi protocols couldn’t fetch price feeds or complete smart-contract calls…
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