Ethereum now available on Amazon Managed Blockchain
Amazon Web Services users reportedly have the ability to "provision Ethereum nodes" as well as connect to the blockchain’s mainnet and other testnets. Tech giant Amazon just announced the general availability of Ethereum on its managed blockchain.According to Amazon Web Services, or AWS, users now have the ability to “provision Ethereum nodes” as well as connect to the blockchain’s mainnet as well as the Ropsten and Rinkeby testnets through the Amazon Managed Blockchain. The program claims to offer secure access to the network with “standard open-source Ethereum APIs” and syncs to the....
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