If over 60% of Ethereum nodes are hosted by AWS, then how truly decentralized is the Ethereum network?

The unintended consequence of a blockchain becoming successful is that it being increasingly centralized.

The 60% probably represents the mining nodes.

When we are looking at the nodes which actually submit transactions the number of nodes go to a much smaller number.

The majority of the DeFi and a lot of other Dapps are going through Metamask and Infura nodes.

Counting the nodes of wallet providers and centralized exchanges the number may become 1–3 dozens of nodes…

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