Author: Nikolay Vlasov

This is the English version of the original post published in the AWS Indonesia blog channel. Part 1 of our series introduced key components for running centralized cryptocurrency exchanges (CEX) on AWS. Part 2 (this post) builds upon that knowledge and guides you through migrating CEX workloads to AWS successfully. In the upcoming Part 3 […]

This is the English version of the original post published in the AWS Indonesia blog. Cryptocurrency exchanges are digital marketplaces where users trade various digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The exchanges provide a secure environment where millions of people worldwide can participate in the cryptocurrency economy.The cryptocurrency trading landscape features two distinct types of […]

Solana Agave v2.0.14 was released on October 18, 2024. Since then, operators of Solana nodes reported that occasionally their Solana nodes struggle to stay in sync with the latest slots on mainnet-beta. Searching for “catch up” on Solana’s StackExchange reveals numerous discussions of this challenge. In an earlier post, we explained how to run Solana […]

In this post, we dive deep into establishing your infrastructure and deploying Polygon blockchain nodes on AWS. We provide recommendations for selecting optimal compute and storage options tailored to various use cases. We discuss the approach to speed up the horizontal scaling of Polygon full nodes on AWS with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) […]

WAX is a blockchain-based system designed for the unique demands of the gaming industry. It provides high transaction throughput and near-instant block finality. With WAX, game developers can decouple in-game digital assets from a single in-game world and let gamers use them in new contexts such as building walls of fame, creating personal online trophy […]

Solana is a public blockchain built for mass adoption. It’s a high-performance network that is utilized for a range of use cases, including finance, NFTs, payments, and gaming. Solana operates as a single global state machine, and is open and interoperable. In this post, we look into the ways Solana blockchain works, the types of […]

Amazon Managed Blockchain and many partners of AWS offer a convenient way to use Ethereum nodes without operating your own infrastructure. But sometimes, when you want to run archive nodes or participate in Ethereum staking, the managed nodes aren’t enough, and you may choose to run your own Ethereum nodes on AWS. To run a […]

The first question that comes up for everyone who wants to manage their own Ethereum nodes on AWS is how to select the right compute and storage. To answer this question, we ran a series of tests and observed how popular Ethereum Execution Layer (EL) clients go-ethereum with LevelDB (Geth) and Erigon work on Amazon […]

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 […]