Solana Decentralization Holds in AWS Outage: No Throughput Drop

On October 20, 2025, an AWS US-East-1 outage from DNS and DynamoDB issues lasted 16 hours. Coinbase, Base, MetaMask, and Infura went ￰0￱ Layer-2s like Polygon and Arbitrum faced significant disruptions. Solana's Unbroken Performance Solana sustained full ￰1￱ per second and validator participation held ￰2￱ validators rely on AWS, with most using independent or diverse ￰3￱ topped Layer-1 blockchain ￰4￱ Resilience Drivers Proof-of-History consensus and global validators ensured stability. Solana’s stablecoin market cap hit $15 billion post-outage, per ￰5￱ reflects growing institutional ￰6￱ Risks Exposed The outage highlighted crypto’s reliance on centralized infrastructure.

Layer-1s like Solana, Bitcoin, and Ethereum outperformed ￰7￱ urge broader backend diversification. Solana’s resilience rebuts earlier outage critiques.