What the AWS Outage Revealed — and Why Projects Like Fluence Are Rebuilding Cloud Infrastructure for Web3

A significant AWS outage on October 20, 2025, caused by a DNS bug in DynamoDB, disrupted thousands of applications globally, including major crypto platforms like Coinbase Advanced and various Layer-2 solutions, exposing the vulnerability of web3 applications dependent on centralized Web2 backbones. This event underscored the conflict between web3's promise of continuous operation and its reliance on single points of failure. In response, projects are developing Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) to offer alternatives. Fluence, for example, is building a decentralized compute network that pools resources from independent providers, offering greater resilience, transparency, and cost savings (up to 85% lower than hyperscalers). While DePIN cannot immediately match the scale of hyperscalers, its open-source, distributed model allows workloads to be portable across multiple providers, ensuring that outages become localized events rather than systemic failures, ultimately aiming to make cloud infrastructure open source and highly adaptable.

(Source：BeInCrypto)