# @LefterisJP: AWS outage exposes crypto's reliance on centralized cloud

Source: https://xcancel.com/lefterisjp/status/1980196064327258535
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/LefterisJP-AWS-outage-exposes-cryptos-reliance-on-centralized-cloud?index=0x68f7e26393bba2743a5ec09a434562ae7d6b03704105ef9bb1edf705e1a1c8ee2350944c
Submitted by misha on 2025-10-21 UTC, 1 upvote, 1 comment

AWS is down and then the internet stops working.

But the blockchain, it never goe ... wait a minute. Scratch that.

This sector is a joke.

Everyone preaching decentralization and censorship resistance but in reality ... it's all 100% reliant on the cloud.

## Comments

**misha**: I do run an Ethereum and a Gnosis node, but guess I’m the 0.01% 😭 But unbanking yourself is pointless if you don’t have your own RPC, since you can still be censored. Anyway I’ll keep recommending to run one. It’s fun too!