Blockchain and AI Vibe-Coding To Dethrone Amazon Web Services: Crypto exec
The rise of AI-powered no-code tools that allow users to create decentralized, language-based applications with blockchain technology will challenge Amazon Web Services' (AWS) dominance of the cloud computing market.
Lomesh Dutta, vice president of development at the Definity Foundation, a non-profit organization leading the development of the Internet Computing Protocol (ICP) ecosystem, said Cointelegraph will democratize access to application creation and custom-tailored user experiences that require constant improvements from AI.
This increase in user-created applications puts centrally managed software solutions on centralized servers.
“As applications are continuously generated and developed by AI, you need an infrastructure that is secure, resilient, and able to stay online without constant human intervention,” he said. Lomesh adds:
“Decentralized blockchain networks introduce a revolutionary computing paradigm: eliminating central points of control enables the creation of secure, reliable, and fault-tolerant software.”
Dominic Williams, founder of Internet Computing, told Cointelegraph that most crypto companies and Web3 projects rely on centralized AWS infrastructure to power their consumer-facing applications and websites.
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AWS shutdown in 2025 will shake the crypto industry
A number of AWS outages occurred in 2025, creating a number of crypto platforms and exchanges using AWS servers and data centers to host their applications.
The first outage occurred in April, causing the disruption of centralized crypto exchanges including Binance, KuCoin and MEXC. At the time, Binance temporarily suspended withdrawals until normal service was restored.
AWS suffered another outage in October, causing disruptions to crypto exchange Coinbase's mobile app, with users reporting login problems, slowdowns and logout problems.
Other financial apps were affected by the outage, including mixed-asset brokerage platform Robinhood and Web3 wallet MetaMask.
The October AWS outage lasted about 15 hours and highlighted the level of leverage that crypto and Web3 projects that market themselves as a decentralized alternative have over centralized cloud infrastructure providers.
Crypto's reliance on centralized infrastructure has drawn criticism from several crypto industry executives, including Jamie Elkaleh, chief marketing officer of crypto wallet company Bitget Wallet, and Carlos Le, founder of decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) marketplace Uplink.
“Decentralization has succeeded at the ledger, but it has not yet succeeded at the infrastructure layer,” Elkaleh told Cointelegraph in October.
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