# 60% of Ethereum nodes run on AWS — that's not decentralization

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2020-01-12
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** "Hashing It Out \#70 - Akash Network - Greg Osuri" (Hashing It Out (The Bitcoin Podcast Network))
- **Watch at:** 00:58:06 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hashing-it-out-70-akash-network-greg-osuri/id1000457699?i=1000462229743
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2020-01-12-60-of-ethereum-nodes-run-on-aws-that-s-not-decentr-4ojj/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "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)), 12 Jan 2020, 00:58:06. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hashing-it-out-70-akash-network-greg-osuri/id1000457699?i=1000462229743

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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).