60% of Ethereum nodes run on AWS — that's not decentralization
"Hashing It Out #70 - Akash Network - Greg Osuri" (Hashing It Out (The Bitcoin Podcast Network))
“60% of Ethereum nodes are running on AWS right now, which is kind of sad… it doesn’t really matter how decentralized the network is, [it] really comes down to your physical deployment. If you’re running on Amazon, I don’t consider that decentralized at all, especially when the majority of your network is running on a single cloud provider.” — 00:58:06
Context: His motivation for DISCO (decentralized infrastructure for serverless computing operations) and home nodes (quote spans into the 00:58:49 block); he adds that with physical access and no SGX, an adversary intending to shut Ethereum down could do it “in a matter of minutes” (00:59:31).