An AWS outage shut down several apps and disrupted services, but did not disturb Ethereum despite hosting more than 64% of nodes. Although Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a minor outage on Tuesday, where it was temporarily unavailable, Ethereum remained unaffected. The temporary downtime did not affect Ethereum’s network nodes, which are mostly hosted on AWS. AWS first revealed at 12:08 PDT that it started an investigation into increased error rates and latencies it had noticed. The company...
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