# Ethereum runs 60% on AWS — "we'll change that very soon"

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2020-12-10
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** "The Akashian Challenge Livestream: Phase 3 Week 1" (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:05:43 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x1ct2eC_Nw&t=343s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2020-12-10-ethereum-runs-60-on-aws-we-ll-change-that-very-soo-mewk/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Ethereum runs 60% on AWS — "we'll change that very soon"," "The Akashian Challenge Livestream: Phase 3 Week 1" (Akash Network), 10 Dec 2020, 00:05:43. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x1ct2eC_Nw&t=343s

## Quote — verbatim

> Most of our community is not very pro-AWS, unlike Ethereum community which has 60% of the nodes on AWS. We'll change that very soon.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

After an AWS outage during testnet revealed only 10-15 of ~100 Akash validator nodes went down; the centralization stat is his recurring critique of proof-of-stake infrastructure.