Web3 on AWS is a bomb waiting to go off
Akask Weekly - Aug 3rd 2022 (Akash Network)
“Amazon Web Services is the number one host for crypto today. It’s fully closed source, it’s fully opaque — we have no idea what’s happening underneath the hood… there’s so many things that could go wrong in a closed source system, and web3 relying on the systems is not okay. We’re just waiting for a bomb to happen, and I don’t want to know what happens when sixty percent of the Ethereum network is attacked because they were vulnerable for a zero day on Amazon.” — 00:07:10
Context: Extending the Solana wallet supply-chain hack lesson to cloud infrastructure; he adds Amazon went down 113 times in 2021 per his open-source outage tracker.