AWS went down in the US, but Ethereum kept humming

Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a minor outage but there was no impact on Ethereum network nodes which largely rely on Amazon’s hosting.

On June 13, the cloud service provider went down temporarily for around three hours. At 12:08 PM PDT, the company first

Around 20 minutes after the discovery of the problem AWS said the root cause of the issue was connected to a service called AWS Lambda, which lets customers run code for different types of applications.

Over three hours after AWS went down the company reported that “the issue has been resolved and all AWS Services are operating normally,” at 3.37 PM PDT.

According to hosting platform Kinsta, among cloud hosting providers, AWS has the dominant market share of 34%.

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