Crypto-node concentration on Big Cloud is a systemic risk
Building The Infrastructure Of Web3 | Greg Osuri Of Akash Network | The FH Show - EP16 (Felix O. Hartmann)
“There’s also stats that 39 [percent] of Solana nodes are running out of… Amazon… well 69 [percent] of Ethereum nodes are running on the big cloud… it’s not that Amazon [is] good or bad, it’s just the fact that there’s such heavy concentration — it is a potential point of failure.” — 00:13:33
Context: Referencing Hetzner banning Ethereum nodes (~10% of the network) in August 2022; warns a government sanction could make cloud-hosted nodes “disappear overnight.”