# Only 9 of 91 testnet nodes were on AWS, vs Ethereum's 60%+

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2020-06-22
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The Akashian Challenge Phase 1 Livestream (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:06:43 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3JjJldfU3o&t=403s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2020-06-22-only-9-of-91-testnet-nodes-were-on-aws-vs-ethereum-w5z4/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Only 9 of 91 testnet nodes were on AWS, vs Ethereum's 60%+," The Akashian Challenge Phase 1 Livestream (Akash Network), 22 Jun 2020, 00:06:43. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3JjJldfU3o&t=403s

## Quote — verbatim

> There were, I believe, nine or ten nodes that went down right around the time there was an outage in AWS — so only nine out of 91 nodes are actually on AWS. I take that with a lot of pride, because Ethereum has over 60% of the nodes on AWS, or cloud in general.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Recapping the AWS outage that hit mid-testnet; used as evidence Akash's validator base practices the decentralization it preaches.