CoinPaprika
Oct 23, 2025
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AWS Outage Disrupts Major Platforms; Solana Maintains Operations

On October 20, 2025, an AWS US-East-1 outage due to DNS and DynamoDB issues lasted 16 hours, affecting platforms like Coinbase, Base, MetaMask, and Infura. Ethereum Layer-2 solutions such as Polygon and Arbitrum were significantly disrupted.

Solana's Unbroken Performance

  • Solana maintained full operations with consistent transactions per second and validator participation.
  • Few Solana validators rely on AWS, favoring independent or diverse setups.
  • Ranked highly in Layer-1 blockchain performance.

Key Resilience Drivers

  • Utilizes Proof-of-History consensus with global validators ensuring stability.
  • Solana’s stablecoin market cap reached $15 billion post-outage, indicating institutional confidence.

Centralization Risks Exposed

  • The outage underscored crypto’s dependency on centralized infrastructure.
  • Layer-1s like Solana, Bitcoin, and Ethereum outperformed Layer-2s.
  • Experts recommend broader backend diversification.
  • Solana’s stability counters previous outage criticisms.