AWS Outage Exposes Centralized Infrastructure Risks, Highlights Need for Decentralized Web3 Solutions
The October 20, 2025 AWS outage laid bare the vulnerabilities of centralized infrastructure, crippling apps, gaming platforms, and financial services globally. A routine software update in Amazon's US-EAST-1 region triggered DNS failures, freezing everything from Fortnite to banking apps—despite web3's decentralization ethos, its reliance on centralized cloud providers creates systemic risk.
NOWNodes' distributed hardware approach demonstrates how redundant, resilient architecture can maintain uptime. The incident serves as a wake-up call: true decentralization requires infrastructure as robust as its protocols, with failure-resistant design becoming a trust primitive for the next internet era.