# Half of Ethereum's hosted nodes run on AWS

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-10-06
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - October 5th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:05:51 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NZhdhw5f4s&t=351s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-10-06-half-of-ethereum-s-hosted-nodes-run-on-aws-vuo5/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Half of Ethereum's hosted nodes run on AWS," Akash Weekly - October 5th 2022 (Akash Network), 6 Oct 2022, 00:05:51. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NZhdhw5f4s&t=351s

## Quote — verbatim

> The base layer is where you run the actual nodes... if you're Ethereum, you're essentially running on AWS — 50% of hosted nodes on Ethereum runs on AWS... so that layer itself is another level of censorship.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His three-layer censorship model of the web3 stack (access point / consensus layer / base layer); Akash targets the front-end and base layers.