Last night an infrastructure provider used by some Solana validators had a failure. You probably didn't notice, because the network didn't: blocks kept producing and transactions kept landing.
The facts:
- The Solana network remained operational
- 597 of 699 staked validators kept voting, roughly 6 out of 7
- Affected validators recovered within 40 minutes
- Validators in the Solana Foundation Delegation Program (SFDP) were unaffected
Because Solana validators are distributed across independent infrastructure providers, the failure of a single provider did not interrupt the network. This is decentralization and infrastructure diversity working as intended, and a proof point for Solana’s resiliency though periods of stress.