# 60% of Ethereum nodes run on AWS — the foundation must decentralize

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-07-01
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** WCEF 2022: Infrastructure for the New Internet - Web3 (World Crypto Economic Forum (WCEF))
- **Watch at:** 00:21:32 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RlL9feMiNk&t=1292s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-07-01-60-of-ethereum-nodes-run-on-aws-the-foundation-mus-obp4/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "60% of Ethereum nodes run on AWS — the foundation must decentralize," WCEF 2022: Infrastructure for the New Internet - Web3 (World Crypto Economic Forum (WCEF)), 1 Jul 2022, 00:21:32. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RlL9feMiNk&t=1292s

## Quote — verbatim

> Somewhere around sixty percent of Eth nodes are running on Amazon Web Services. So if Amazon tries to pull the plug, it's gone... The foundation needs to be decentralized, because the companies like Amazon and Google, they have no choice except to comply.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On New York's just-passed mining ban ("banning SHA-256... a horrible law, I'm pretty sure it's going to reverse in a few years") and hostile regulatory action as a systemic threat.