Amazon's redundancy ends at the data center
Decentralized Cloud - DCENTRAL Austin 2022 (Dcentral Con)
“On-chain computing is hyper redundant — that’s why it’s expensive, that also is why it’s secure. Off-chain compute, the redundancy depends on the scheduling algorithm. Amazon is not redundant… if an Amazon data center goes down, it goes down — it’s redundant within the scope of the data center… the challenge is to design something that allows for cross-site, or maximum possible, redundancy while allowing for performance.” — 00:05:01
Context: Answering “why not just deploy on AWS”; he adds he deployed a validator “within five minutes from 3,000 feet using clicks” [00:05:44].