A while ago (around October 20th, Eastern Time), Amazon's cloud services experienced a massive outage, which severely affected many blockchain systems in the encryption ecosystem, including Ethereum.Relevant data shows that approximately 37% of the nodes on the Ethereum mainnet are hosted on Amazon Cloud, making this portion of nodes victims of the recent outage event. The offline status of these nodes has also impacted the performance of the Ethereum mainnet.So many people online began to echo: “The decentralization of Ethereum is false.
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A while ago (around October 20th, Eastern Time), Amazon's cloud services experienced a massive outage, which severely affected many blockchain systems in the encryption ecosystem, including Ethereum.Relevant data shows that approximately 37% of the nodes on the Ethereum mainnet are hosted on Amazon Cloud, making this portion of nodes victims of the recent outage event. The offline status of these nodes has also impacted the performance of the Ethereum mainnet.So many people online began to echo: “The decentralization of Ethereum is false.