AWS experienced outages in the US, but Ethereum kept humming

Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a minor outage, but there was no significant impact on Ethereum network nodes even though they 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 reported it was “investigating increased error rates and latencies” in parts of the United States. Many mainstream news organizations, such as the Associated Press, were affected and unable to publish articles. Ethereum advocate Evan Van Ness observed the outage noting that the Ethereum network…

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