AWS suffered a region-wide failure. Tens of thousands of apps - Venmo, Reddit, Zoom, Roblox, even Amazon’s own services went dark. But a few didn’t because they ran on @WalrusProtocol, via @SuiNetwork. Let’s unpack why [Research series]↓

The AWS event reaffirmed a bigger truth: Decentralization isn’t about ideology anymore; it’s about survival. Centralized systems fail together. Distributed ones degrade gracefully because the failure is asynchronous. If one node, zone, or cluster fails, the rest continue functioning. Performance might dip slightly, but the system doesn’t collapse and die.

The AWS outage made one thing clear that the “cloud” isn’t the sky, it’s someone else’s data center in Virginia. Walrus spreads that sky across the world; verifiable, permissionless, recoverable. When the web went dark, Walrus didn’t blink because resilience was the premise.