The day before yesterday, a massive AWS outage caused numerous services, including Perplexity, Robinhood, Canva, and Coinbase, to go offline.
Many DeFi front-ends were also inaccessible.
This serves as another reminder: While Ethereum is decentralized, access to it remains centralized.
In a world where the three giants—AWS, Cloudflare, and Google Cloud—control the internet infrastructure, no matter how decentralized your protocol is, as long as users' access relies on these centralized clouds, it remains vulnerable.
The next revolution the cryptocurrency world needs most may not be a new blockchain or a faster rollup, but a shift in how we access the internet.