AWS Web3 Blog

This series of posts provides a comprehensive introduction to running IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) on AWS: In Part 1, we introduce the IPFS concepts and test IPFS features on an HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instance In Part 2, we propose a reference architecture and build an IPFS cluster on HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service […]

IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) is a storage protocol that allows content to be stored in a decentralized manner on the global IPFS network, without relying on any central entity. IPFS-enabled applications can benefit from a high level of redundancy and low latency, because content can be replicated, looked up, and downloaded from nearby IPFS nodes. […]

This is the first post in a series of posts covering digital asset tokenization in financial services, a topic which is seeing tremendous interest in the sector. The series aims to be a guide for financial services customers looking to learn more about the topic, and who may be considering building a digital asset capability for their […]

Over the past two years, public blockchain adoption has been driven by three primary use cases: decentralized finance (DeFi), which provides an open financial system built using smart contracts on public blockchains non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that certify ownership of digital assets and enable broad transferability of those digital assets digital currency payments that enable value […]

Builders in the blockchain space are often burdened with the undifferentiated heavy lifting involved in managing a resilient fleet of blockchain node clients to access one or more public blockchains. Configuring, provisioning, and maintaining a multitude of public blockchain nodes can be prohibitively resource intensive, both in infrastructure costs and in the human hours required […]

Today, we are happy to announce the general availability of HAQM Managed Blockchain (AMB) Access and Query. These two services expand AMB’s capabilities to help developers seamlessly interact with public blockchains so they can build scalable applications quickly and securely. AMB Access provides a new serverless offering for non-mining, full blockchain nodes. With AMB Access, […]

In Part 1 of this series, we gave a high-level introduction to an AWS Nitro Enclaves-based Web3Signer blockchain validation and signing service. We explained the purpose of running blockchain validators and also why Nitro Enclaves are well suited to run security sensitive cryptographic workloads. We furthermore covered the high-level application architecture and briefly explained the […]

In this series of posts, we provide prescriptive guidance in secure operation of Ethereum validator keys using AWS Nitro Enclaves for node operators who provide staking pools and staking-as-a-service. In this post (Part 1), we explain why AWS Nitro Enclaves are well suited to run Ethereum validators in a secure fashion and we provide a […]

The new proof-of-stake consensus mechanism on Ethereum blockchain network allows network participants to earn rewards without spending a lot of computational power for playing a part in securing the network. Unlike miners, validators don’t need to spend many CPU cycles to produce new blocks. They stake 32 ETH (the native cryptocurrency on Ethereum) to be […]

In this post, you learn how to deploy a cloud-based development environment with which to build, test, and deploy smart contracts on the public Ethereum Goerli testnet via a dedicated Ethereum full node managed using HAQM Managed Blockchain. You can also use the steps outlined in this post to create a development environment on the […]