An AWS outage shut down many apps and disrupted services, but didn’t bother Ethereum despite hosting more than 64% of the nodes.
Although Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a minor outage on Tuesday where it was temporarily unavailable. Ethereum remained unaffected. The temporary downtime did not affect Ethereum’s network nodes, which are mostly hosted on AWS.
aws first revealed at 12:08 PDT that it launched an investigation noting increased error rates and latency. The company then provided 10 more status updates, with the last one confirming that its outage lasted from 11:49 AM PDT to 3:37 PM PDT.
The last update provided detailed description, adding that multiple AWS services experienced the issue in the US. According to AWS, the outage caused problems for customers directly through the API Gateway and indirectly through other AWS services. The update also specifies that customer issues experienced at the time include sign-in or authentication errors with the AWS Management Console or the Cognito service. In addition, customers may have problems contacting AWS Support via chat or call.
As of 1:41 PM, AWS had resolved the issue and begun processing a backlog of accumulated requests. At 3:37 PM, AWS finished processing the backlog and confirmed that all processes were working properly.
AWS outage did not affect Ethereum
Ethereum supporter Evan Van Ness Posted AWS downtime on Twitter, confirms “Ethereum humming along unaffected.” While the downtime affected the Associated Press and some other mainstream news organizations, not all services dependent on AWS suffered downtime. AWS Update specified that the issue affects services in “US-EAST-1-Region”.
According to ethernodes informationAmazon hosts 64.4% of Ethereum nodes, with Google Cloud hosting only 5.2%. Nevertheless, the outage was not strong enough to affect Ethereum as only one AWS region was affected.
The recent outage may have rekindled the conversation about the centralization of Ethereum. Enthusiasts have chided Ethereum for its relationship with infra infrastructure, which is responsible for the network nodes used by organizations. More than a few organizations use AWS mostly for hosting.
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Several other companies were affected by the downtime. While it may be impossible to specify the number of organizations that have been or have been affected recently, using AWS, the report suggests that major fast-food companies had to suspend some services. according to The Verge reportsBurger King, McDonald’s and Taco Bell had to pause app ordering until the issue was resolved.
In addition to fast food companies, Hacker News and Reddit engineers also complained that the troubleshooting consoles were not available. Reportedly, Delta Air Lines was also affected.
A 2021 AWS outage Had a more severe impact than the recent downtime. The issue reportedly affects multiple services, including access to Amazon.com, Amazon Music and Alexa. Security cameras, including Wyze and Ring, also recorded downtime. Furthermore, the list expanded to streaming services such as Netflix and Disney Plus, with reports from Venmo, Cash App, Coinbase, and Tinder.
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