{"id":33765,"date":"2022-08-18T06:18:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T10:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=33765"},"modified":"2022-08-18T06:18:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T10:18:10","slug":"three-cloud-providers-host-over-two-thirds-of-ethereum-nodes-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/three-cloud-providers-host-over-two-thirds-of-ethereum-nodes-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Three cloud providers host over two-thirds of Ethereum nodes -Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
According to a post dated August 15, Ethereum nodes are hosted on three large cloud providers including Amazon Web Services<\/a> (AWS), Hetzner, and OVH with each contributing over 50%, 15%, and 4.1%, respectively.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Three cloud providers host over two-thirds of Ethereum nodes -Analysis <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

According to crypto analytics platform Messari, the bulk of the 4,653 active Ethereum nodes are held by centralized web service providers\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/g>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/clipPath>\r\n <\/defs><\/svg><\/span><\/a> like Amazon Web Services (AWS), which could “subject Ethereum to central points of failure.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, according to data from Ethernodes, Oracle (4.1%), Alibaba (3.9%), and Google (3.5%) offer web hosting services on Ethereum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Distribution of Ethereum nodes from web service providers. Source: Ethernodes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In a paper published in December 2020, Messari expressed concern that Ethereum <\/a>may be susceptible due to the expensive nature of node infrastructure, even if the distribution of cloud service providers grows increasingly decentralized among the bottom third of providers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHigh costs to run infrastructure make it more likely that nodes would run infrastructure with cloud computing providers (i.e AWS) – making Ethereum more exposed to central points of failure.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“High infrastructure operating expenses increase the likelihood that nodes would operate infrastructure with cloud computing providers (such as AWS), increasing Ethereum's vulnerability to single points of failure.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similar problems with node distribution plague Solana<\/a> (SOL), with Hetzner accounting for 42% of the network's hosted nodes, followed by OVH (26%) and AWS (3%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, according to Ethernode data, the majority of distributed Ethereum nodes worldwide\u2014nearly 60%\u2014are geographically centered in the United States (46.4%) and Germany (13.4%). Therefore, governmental interference from either of these two nations might have a significant negative effect on Ethereum's node-level decentralization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to a post dated August 15, Ethereum nodes are hosted on three large cloud providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Hetzner, and OVH with each contributing over 50%, 15%, and 4.1%, respectively. According to crypto analytics platform Messari, the bulk of the 4,653 active Ethereum nodes are held by centralized web service providers like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":9922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[11124,128],"class_list":["post-33765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethereum-news","tag-cloud-providers","tag-ethereum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Sen-Warren-talks-about-high-gas-fees-on-the-Ethereum-network.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}