Blockchain No-Code Tools Threaten AWS Dominance
Blockchain and No-Code Tools Challenge AWS Dominance: Crypto Executive
Many cryptocurrency and Web3 initiatives promote themselves as fully decentralized systems, yet they continue to depend heavily on centralized cloud infrastructure to run their applications and services.
The emergence of AI-driven no-code platforms, which enable users to build applications using simple language prompts instead of traditional programming, combined with blockchain’s decentralized architecture, poses a serious threat to Amazon Web Services’ stronghold in the cloud computing sector.
These no-code tools promise to make app development accessible to everyone, fostering personalized user experiences that demand ongoing AI-managed updates and maintenance, according to Lomesh Dutta, vice president of growth at the Dfinity Foundation. This non-profit organization supports the development of the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) ecosystem. He shared these insights in an interview.
The proliferation of applications created and continuously refined by AI removes the necessity for software managed through centralized servers, shifting power toward more distributed models.
“When applications are continuously generated and evolved by AI, you need infrastructure that is secure, tamper-resistant, and able to stay online without constant human intervention,” Dutta explained. He further emphasized:
“Decentralized blockchain networks introduced a revolutionary computing paradigm: by eliminating central points of control, they enable the creation of secure, reliable, and fault-tolerant software.”
A substantial number of crypto firms and Web3 projects depend on AWS’s centralized infrastructure to operate their customer-facing apps and websites, as noted by Internet Computer founder Dominic Williams.
AWS Outages Disrupt Crypto Sector in 2025
Throughout 2025, multiple AWS service disruptions have affected various cryptocurrency platforms and exchanges that host their operations on AWS servers and data centers.
The initial major outage struck in April, leading to service interruptions for prominent centralized exchanges such as Binance, KuCoin, and MEXC. Binance responded by temporarily halting withdrawals until operations returned to normal.
A subsequent AWS outage in October caused issues with Coinbase’s mobile app, where users encountered login failures, performance slowdowns, and problems with withdrawals.
Other financial services, including the brokerage platform Robinhood and the Web3 wallet MetaMask, also suffered from the disruptions during this period.
This October incident, which persisted for approximately 15 hours, highlighted the extensive dependency that crypto and Web3 projects—often positioned as decentralized alternatives—have on centralized cloud providers like AWS.
The crypto industry’s reliance on such centralized systems has faced scrutiny from various executives, including Jamie Elkaleh, chief marketing officer at Bitget Wallet, and Carlos Lei, co-founder of the DePIN marketplace Uplink.
“Decentralization has succeeded at the ledger layer but not yet at the infrastructure layer,” Elkaleh stated.
