A Managed Blockchain network for Hyperledger Fabric consists of one or more members, and each member has peer nodes with local storage.
Additionally, members can write data to the network.
You are charged for network membership, peer nodes, peer node storage, data written to the network, and data transfer. The costs associated with shared network components are included in your hourly network membership rate, which is billed per second.
The pricing below is for Amazon Managed Blockchain for Hyperledger Fabric.
Membership
Your membership in a Managed Blockchain network for Hyperledger Fabric is equivalent to a Hyperledger Fabric organization. The organization authenticates and authorizes individual identities for network participation. The membership rate includes a Hyperledger Fabric certificate authority (CA) and other shared network costs. A single AWS Account can create multiple members.
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Starter Edition
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Standard Edition
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Starter Edition
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The Amazon Managed Blockchain Starter Edition network is designed for test networks and small production networks. It has several different attributes than the Standard Edition: You can have a maximum of 5 members per network and 2 peer nodes per member. Available peer node types are bc.t3.small and bc.t3.medium. You can have up to 3 Hyperledger Fabric channels per network. The ordering service provisioned in a Starter Edition network is has lower transaction throughput and availability than that in a Standard Edition network.
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Standard Edition
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The Amazon Managed Blockchain Standard Edition network is designed for production networks. It has several different attributes than the Starter Edition: You can have a maximum of 14 members per network and 3 peer nodes per member. The bc.t3, bc.m5, and bc.c5 instance families are available instance types for peer nodes. You can have up to 8 Hyperledger Fabric channels per network. The ordering service provisioned in a Standard Edition network is has higher transaction throughput and availability than that in a Starter Edition network
On-Demand peer node pricing
On-Demand pricing lets you pay per second for the blockchain peer nodes you create, with a 1-minute minimum. This frees you from the cost and complexity of planning and purchasing up-front peer node capacity ahead of your needs.
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Starter Edition
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Standard Edition
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Starter Edition
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Standard Edition
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Peer node storage
Peer node storage elastically scales for storing the blockchain ledger and chaincode applications. Peer node storage is charged in GB-month increments.
Except as otherwise noted, our prices are exclusive of applicable taxes and duties, including VAT and applicable sales tax. For customers with a Japanese billing address, use of AWS is subject to Japanese Consumption Tax.
Data written
Data Written is the amount of data you (e.g. your membership) have written to the Hyperledger Fabric network. This includes the entire payload size of each transaction you create on the network.
Standard AWS data transfer charges
You need to pay standard AWS data transfer charges for the data transferred in and out of Amazon Managed Blockchain.
Pricing examples
2 Member Test
Network
Consider an Amazon Managed Blockchain test network owned by a single customer. This network has two Starter Edition members to simulate a multi-party transaction. Each member has a single bc.t3.small peer node with 20 GiB of storage and writes 9 MB to the network per hour.
The hourly cost for this network is:
Membership cost: (2 Starter Edition members) x ($0.30 per hour) x (1 hour) = $0.60 per hour
Peer node cost: (2 members) x (1 bc.t3.small peer node per member) x (0.034 per hour) x (1 hour) = $0.068 per hour
Peer node storage cost: (2 members) x (1 peer node per member) x (20 GiB storage per peer node) x ($0.10 per GB-month) x (1 hour) = $0.006 per hour
Data written cost: (2 members) x (9 MB per hour) x (0.10 per GB) = $0.002 per hour
Total test network hourly cost: $0.676
Joining a Production
Network
Consider an Amazon Managed Blockchain network with members from multiple AWS accounts. In this example, we'll calculate the hourly cost for a single Standard Edition member in the network. This member has a two bc.m5.2xlarge peer nodes for high availability and performance, and each peer node has 500 GiB of storage.
The hourly cost for this network is:
Network member cost: (1 Standard Edition member) x ($0.55 per hour) x (1 hour) = $0.55 per hour
Peer node cost: (1 member) x (2 m5.2xlarge peer nodes per member) x (0.615 per hour) x (1 hour) = $1.23 per hour
Peer node storage cost: (1 member) x (2 peer node per member) x (500 GiB storage per peer node) x ($0.10 per GB-month) x (1 hour) = $0.139 per hour
Data written cost: (1 member) x (100 MB per hour) x (0.10 per GB) = $0.01 per hour
Total production network hourly cost: $1.93
