Can Decentralized Networks Make the Internet More Resilient?

Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) latest outage on Oct. 20 has sparked debate over decentralized alternatives and hybrid strategies for resilience.

The outage lasted several hours and disrupted major websites and apps, including Robinhood and Coinbase. Experts say it highlights the fragility of today’s internet, where a few centralized cloud providers dominate. AWS holds 30% of the global cloud market, ahead of Microsoft Azure at 21% and Google Cloud at 12%, giving the three more than 60% of total cloud share, per Statista.

“The vast majority of data making up the websites we use every day sits in data warehouses owned by just three companies. We have repeatedly seen these companies suffer blackouts, and vast swaths of the web go down for hours,” Marta Belcher, President and Chair at the Filecoin Foundation, said in comments shared with The Defiant. “This latest AWS outage is just another example of the problem with having single points of failure.”

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