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by helsinkiandrew 1370 days ago
This will probably get lower over the next few days but it still doesn't look very distributed compared with the existing Banking system.

It's hard to tell the difference between ETH running on infrastructure maintained by Binance, Binance, and FTX etc and USD going between JPMorgan, Citi, and Goldman.

I read a statistic that over 50% of the Ethereum Mainnet is on AWS (but can't find it now) - hopefully that isn't all in the same Virginia data centre.

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I agree but there people are likely overpaying. Heck, it should be Hetzner or OVH.
Considering that you can get penalized if your validator is offline, I think any gain in reliability from using the most reliable provider you can is going to pay off.
Having a single VM on Amazon doesn't provide substantially better reliability.