‘House is fine, but door is jammed’: AWS outage shows crypto’s weak spot

A recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage severely impacted major crypto and fintech platforms, including Coinbase, Robinhood, and MetaMask, reigniting debate over Web3 decentralization. While the underlying blockchains continued operating uninterrupted, users could not access wallets, exchanges, or DApps because their interfaces relied on centralized AWS servers. Experts noted that decentralization has succeeded at the ledger layer but failed at the infrastructure layer, with many services depending heavily on hyperscalers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure for speed and compliance. Anthurine Xiang described the situation as the "house is fine, but the door is jammed," meaning assets were safe, but access services were offline. Industry leaders urged the crypto community to move towards "credible multi-home" infrastructure, distributing workloads across both traditional cloud services and decentralized networks like Akash or Filecoin to mitigate single points of failure, arguing that the future of Web3 depends on infrastructure distribution, not just token decentralization.

(Source：Cointelegraph)