Decentralised servers when?
What is the AWS and how does it affect your crypto?
Most people think crypto means “decentralization”
But the truth is almost 90% of the entire crypto industry runs on one company:
Amazon Web Services.
Today the AWS went down.
And with it, so did Coinbase, Binance, Crypto com and thousands of wallets
But what is AWS?
Amazon Web Services is the biggest cloud provider in the world, hosting everything from Netflix to banks.
But in crypto, it has become the backbone for almost everything:
• Coinbase runs its trading engine and wallets on AWS.
• Binance depends on AWS for its global servers.
• Crypto com, KuCoin, and dozens of DeFi protocols all rely on it for databases and trading.
It’s cheap, fast, and easy which is why everyone uses it.
That same convenience creates a massive single point of failure.
When AWS breaks, the entire crypto world breaks with it.
It was the third major outage that year — and every time, the pattern was the same: total paralysis.
• In February 2025, a Bybit server misconfiguration exposed $1.5B in ETH.
• Thousands of crypto API keys have leaked from public AWS buckets.
• Under the US CLOUD Act, the government can demand AWS hand over data, even from foreign users.
The irony is:
Crypto loves to talk about freedom.
But right now, that freedom lives inside Amazon’s servers.
