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​​ Most of Ethereum's active nodes are in the hands of three major cloud solution providers

According to analytics company Messari, most of Ethereum's active nodes are in the hands of centralized web providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), which can "affect Ethereum through central nodes."

The three main cloud providers account for 69% of the hosted nodes on Ethereum's core network, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounting for over 50%, Hetzner for over 15% and OVH for 4.1%.

Ethernodes figures show that Oracle (4.1%), Alibaba (3.9%) and Google (3.5%) also provide web hosting services on Ethereum.

In its December 2020 report, Messari pointed out that the high cost of node infrastructure could make Ethereum vulnerable.

Now the analytics company is concerned about the situation around Solana. According to Messari, 72% of Solana's core nodes are in the hands of the same centralized web providers as Ethereum nodes.

According to Ethernode, the nodes are most geographically concentrated in the U.S. (46.4%) and Germany (13.4%), accounting for nearly 60% of distributed Ethereum nodes worldwide.

Thus, government intervention in one of these two countries could seriously impact Ethereum decentralization.