# \~70% of blockchain nodes run on Amazon — with their keys

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-06-27
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Enter Decentralized Cloud & Unstoppable Web with Akash Network & Deeper - DeFi Conference Day 1 (Dcentral Con)
- **Watch at:** 00:12:45 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV6Zu5_AVKA&t=765s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-06-27-70-of-blockchain-nodes-run-on-amazon-with-their-ke-ikie/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "\~70% of blockchain nodes run on Amazon — with their keys," Enter Decentralized Cloud & Unstoppable Web with Akash Network & Deeper - DeFi Conference Day 1 (Dcentral Con), 27 Jun 2021, 00:12:45. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV6Zu5_AVKA&t=765s

## Quote — verbatim

> I see a lot of nodes being deployed on Amazon — I think arguably about 70% of the nodes running are running on Amazon today, and they all have their keys in Amazon itself. If the server on the Amazon gets compromised, you're screwed... no one is going to save your keys, not Jeff Bezos — in fact, they probably have access to your keys and you don't even know about it. It's that bad. Current cloud is so insecure that people don't talk about it unless something really bad happens.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Arguing d-cloud is more secure because Akash enforces "resiliency through redundancy" (keys spread across five providers, remote signers); concludes "hands down, decentralized cloud is the future" ([00:14:11]).