Category: Best Practices

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 […]

Recent security incidents across blockchain and broader IT sectors underscore the persistent risk of sophisticated attacks on software supply chains and build environments. Reproducible builds offer a powerful mitigation strategy by making sure that software compiled from the same source code and dependencies consistently produces identical binaries, making it possible to detect tampering. In this […]

Digital assets is a rapidly maturing set of asset class, and customers are choosing AWS to build exchanges and trading platforms to differentiate their offerings across this dynamic and growing industry. In this multi part series, we explore the world of centralized exchange (CEX) and market maker (MM) infrastructure on AWS. In Part 1, we […]

Those who choose to take ownership of digital assets, such as cryptocurrency or non-fungible tokens (NFTs), are faced with a crucial decision when creating a wallet: do they opt to manage their own wallet or delegate that responsibility to a trusted third party? Non-custodial wallet solutions, whereby a user manages their own wallet, are popular […]

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 […]

Cosmos is a decentralized network of interoperable blockchain networks that serves as an open and highly scalable environment on which to build blockchain applications. With effective support for cross-chain interaction between homogeneous and heterogeneous blockchains, Cosmos aims to extend interoperability to a broader landscape. In this post, we discuss the value and technical architecture of Cosmos and provide a detailed tutorial on the quick deployment of the Cosmos enterprise framework (IRITA) within the AWS environment.

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 […]