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AWS Outage Highlights Crypto's Over-Reliance on Centralized Infrastructure

Aws Outage Exposes Crypto Centralization

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Written by Dario Cesaro
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A recent widespread Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage significantly impacted major cryptocurrency and fintech platforms, including Coinbase, Robinhood, and MetaMask. While the underlying blockchains continued to operate seamlessly, millions of users were unable to access their digital assets and services due to the failure of centralized interfaces and APIs hosted on AWS.

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