Overview
Launchnodes provides a pre-synced Geth Node on AWS for staking ETH and other Layer 2 solutions. For the purposes of ETH staking Geth is an execution layer client.
If you need any help with setting up Geth nodes please contact us at support@launchnodes.com
Our self serve set up instructions can be found here https://launchnodes.gitbook.io/aws-geth-node-setup/
Launchnodes provide a pre-synced Geth node for people staking ETH that can be used by all consensus layer clients. These consensus layer clients can run on public cloud or private data centre infrastructure. Making it easier and cheaper to stake ETH
All ETH Layer 2 solutions also require an Ethereum Geth node. This easy to run pre-synced node running on AWS supports building in the Layer 2 eco-system.
Using Launchnodes' pre-synced Geth client on AWS allows customers to stake ETH using any consensus layer client. It also makes it much easier to do so as our Geth for staking node allows you to sync your staking infrastructure much more quickly. Reducing the time from days to a few hours.
Customers use Launchnodes Geth node to build highly resilient staking architectures using public cloud and their own data centre infrastructure.
A pre-synced Geth node saves you the syncing time, which is normally more than 2 days. Using Launchnodes pre-synced nodes it will take you 1 or 2 hours.
Geth is mission critical in your staking operation, so having a high availability instance that is synchronised in a short period of time to the network, empowers your technical teams to keep your staking validator nodes 100% effective.
Using a Launchnodes pre-synced Geth node allows you to stake ETH more easily and at a lower cost on your own infrastructure or using AWS, Azure or GCP.
It also allows you to choose your consensus layer client or run a mix of different clients easily and with higher levels of resilience.
Geth is important and used by all Ethereum Layer 2 solutions and so providing a high availability pre-synced node we feel helps all people and organisations building in the Ecosystem.
For more information visit https://www.launchnodes.com/geth-node-ethereum-staking
Highlights
- A pre-synchronised Geth node to make staking ETH easier, faster and cheaper.
- Suitable for those staking ETH using all consensus layer clients
- Makes ETH staking easier on cloud or private data centre infrastructure
Details
Typical total price
$0.272/hour
Features and programs
Financing for AWS Marketplace purchases
Pricing
Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
m5.xlarge Recommended | $0.08 | $0.192 | $0.272 |
m5.2xlarge | $0.08 | $0.384 | $0.464 |
m5.4xlarge | $0.08 | $0.768 | $0.848 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp3) volumes | $0.08/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
no refunds
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
This version reflects the actual geth open source version. For more information https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases
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Customer reviews
Geth node - Fast and resilient way for building Dapps and doing Layer 2 stuff
Using this product saves us so much time in bringing to life fully synched/useful Geth nodes. Its now our default option for Geth.
Ethereum Execution Layer client and Geth node for L2 chains
Using Launchnodes I don't have to worry about Geth anymore, both in terms of my execution layer client and for all our work on Plasma, Polygon, Optimism, and Arbitrum that all need an option for fast synched Geth nodes. Their support is excellent
Time saver product
A pre-synced Geth node saved me days. It works well and I didn't need support as their documentation is so good. We already had a Beacon node running so syncing was super easy. If you are building in the L2 space this is a super useful tool.
Not working
First of all, the support is super helpful.
But this is not working.
If you subscribe to it from the marketplace and create an instance:
a) you can't connect using the preset security group
b) if you update the security group by yourself, you can connect, but no node is running
c) if you start the node manually, it comes to an error state after 5 minutes and doesn't do anything
If you subscribe from EC2 -> AMI -> Marketplace and try to create an instance the security group is preset and you can connect to that one, but there is still no geth-node container running
If you run it, you'll see this message all the time:
Post-merge network, but no beacon client seen. Please launch one to follow the chain!