Go Multi-cloud and Build Redundancy today

A lesson learned from the AWS outage and what to do moving forward

A single glitch in Amazon Web Services (AWS) exposed a hard truth: a “decentralized” industry still leans on one centralized cloud.

For many projects, this wasn’t just bad luck - it was structural risk. 37% of Ethereum’s 6,400+ execution layer nodes run on AWS, and 60–70% of Layer-2 infrastructure depends on it. Convenience made AWS the default choice: easy node spin-ups, cheap storage, and startup credits. But convenience isn’t resilience.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was built for SaaS, not blockchains.

- Virtualized compute adds latency.
- Public internet routing makes performance unpredictable.
- Multi-tenant environments create noisy neighbors and lag.

The real wake-up call? If your infrastructure sits on AWS, your resiliency stops there.

A Better Way Forward with Nirvana Labs

Nirvana Labs is purpose-built for performance-critical blockchain workloads—offering the kind of infrastructure Amazon Web Services (AWS) was never designed for.

If you’re going to offload workloads, offload them to a cloud built for blockchains.

• 🖥 Bare-Metal Servers - Dedicated compute, no noisy neighbors; with diversified providers.
• ⚡ Ultra-low Latency - Private fiber networking that bypasses the public internet.
• 💽 Elastic Block Storage - High IOPS performance and seamless scalability for indexing and data-heavy workloads.
• 🧭 NKS Orchestration - Nirvana version of Kubernetes: auto-scales to keep nodes online during traffic spikes.
• 💰 Up to 80% Cost Savings - Purpose-built infra eliminates egress and virtualization overhead.

Backed by a $6M raise, Nirvana already powers some of the most performance-driven teams in crypto including Aori, BitGo, Chainlink, Fireblocks, Nansen, Redstone, Keyrock, and Goldsky alongside dozens more.

Nirvana currently supports 60+ blockchain networks, delivering low-latency, high-availability infrastructure designed to keep critical workloads online when legacy clouds falter.

Go Multi-cloud with Nirvana Labs and Build Redundancy today

Resilience doesn’t mean abandoning AWS altogether. A hybrid model lets teams keep non-critical workloads on AWS while running nodes, oracles, and RPCs on Nirvana.

October 20 wasn’t just an outage. It was a stress test for the myth of decentralization.

In a market where performance matters, the lesson is clear: AWS rules Web2, but blockchains need infrastructure designed for their ethos - resilient, distributed, and purpose-built.

Go multi-cloud today with Nirvana, the HPC cloud purpose built for web3.

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