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Category: Amazon Managed Blockchain

Retrieve Bitcoin and Ethereum Public Blockchain Data with Amazon Managed Blockchain Query

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 […]

Introducing Amazon Managed Blockchain Access Bitcoin

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 […]

AWS expands Amazon Managed Blockchain with Access and Query

Today, we are happy to announce the general availability of Amazon 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, […]

How Broadridge used Amazon Managed Blockchain to build a private equity lifecycle management solution

Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader with more than $5 billion in revenues, provides the critical infrastructure that powers investing, corporate governance, and communications to enable better financial lives. We deliver technology-driven solutions that drive digital transformation for banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers and public companies. Broadridge’s infrastructure serves as a […]

Deploy an Ethereum development environment using Amazon EC2 and Amazon Managed Blockchain

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 Amazon Managed Blockchain. You can also use the steps outlined in this post to create a development environment on the […]

Contributing to therapeutic drug development using Amazon Managed Blockchain

In the pharmaceutical industry, the cost of clinical research and clinical trials is extremely high, which results in higher drug prices and insurance expenses. Furthermore, the high costs have resulted in decreased numbers of clinical trials at national research institutes and universities, slowing the progress of pharmaceutical research. In addition, incidents of data falsification or […]

Amazon Managed Blockchain sessions and workshops from AWS re:Invent 2022

Engaging with the customers at AWS re:Invent is always a great opportunity for us to learn more about their use cases, get their feedback on our services, and present new features and capabilities. The Amazon Managed Blockchain team conducted a series of presentations and workshops that focused on how customers are using blockchain technology and […]

Blockchain and the future of event ticketing

A common frustration among people who buy tickets to concerts, plays, and other events is that each ticket carries multiple fees. The fees often vary in ways that seem hard to comprehend, making the final cost unpredictable. Through the ticket’s lifecycle, multiple intermediaries can add to the cost and collect revenue, with no monetary benefit […]

How Korean Air succeeded in managing the vaccine cold chain with Amazon Managed Blockchain

After the development of the COVID-19 vaccine, Korean Air began transporting vaccines in February, 2021. In the process, Korean Air realized the need to provide more accurate information between related stakeholders in a more reliable way and turned to blockchain technology. Korean Air confirmed that blockchain is suitable for improving traceability, transparency, and accuracy of […]

Introducing token-based access to Ethereum node APIs on Amazon Managed Blockchain

On October 22, 2022, Amazon Managed Blockchain for Ethereum launched an alternative way for interoperable access to Ethereum nodes JSON-RPC APIs for HTTPs and secure WebSockets using token-based access. In this post we demonstrate how to deploy an Ethereum node and access its JSON-RPC APIs using an accessor token. Managed Blockchain is a fully managed […]