Walrus Protocol: True Decentralization Goes Beyond Geography 🦭
This diagram shows how Walrus distributes data shards across hosting providers, not just regions. Instead of relying on a single cloud or vendor, shards are spread across many independent infrastructure providers.
🔹 Strong presence across providers like Hetzner, Cherry Servers, Leaseweb, OVH, WorldStream
🔹 Participation from regional, niche, and independent hosts
🔹 Inclusion of cloud providers (AWS, Alibaba Cloud) alongside self-hosted nodes
🔹 No single provider dominates the network
Why this matters ⬇️
✅ Protects against cloud outages and provider failures
✅ Reduces infrastructure centralization risk
✅ Improves censorship resistance
✅ Ensures long-term data availability
👉 Walrus proves that decentralized storage must be decentralized at the infrastructure level—not just in theory, but in practice.
