I'm much more excited about this new offering: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/</a> (Disclaimer: I work at Amazon but not on AWS).<p>A "cryptographically verified transaction log" seems like a much better alternative for almost all private blockchain use cases I've seen (there aren't many that make sense).<p>It's cool that AWS offering a productized version of Ethereum for customers who want it, but I imagine once people get past the buzzwords, it makes much more sense to have something centralized, or use a secure public blockchain like Ethereum / Bitcoin for public auditing.
>“Blockchain makes it possible to build applications where multiple parties can execute transactions without the need for a trusted, central authority.“<p>Except in this case when it’s run by a central authority
So this is a centralized immutable database though Amazon?<p>This is old tech, but repackaged and marketed to people who 'want the blockchain'.<p>I think the only reason alt-coins exploded is that people had little understanding of how common databases were but lots of understanding of the explosion in Bitcoin Price.
For the average developer just starting out, pick Aurora Serverless (MySQL or Postgres). It's probably all you will ever need. Relational databases are still the best general purpose thing out there.
Step 1: Integrate this into your product.<p>Step 2: Market your product based on Blockchain technology.<p>Step 3: Fasten your seatbelt while beeing on the hype train!
I'm in the early stage building <a href="https://nodablock.com/" rel="nofollow">https://nodablock.com/</a> that is pretty similar to Amazon Managed Blockchain.
Excited to see them coming into that space!
So it seems this is in competition with the IBM Hyperledger offering. Does anybody know if the enterprise users of hyperledger prefer IBM's on-premise solution or are hyperledger deployments mostly happening in the cloud already anyways?
If the network is reachable from the outside and there are other block producing & validating nodes elsewhere, then this could be an interesting setup for enterprises after all it's a P2P network.
Sorry if this sounds rude, but please be sure to add a disclaimer that you work at Amazon if you're going to be posting recommendations for AWS products on HN.<p>It already seems like Amazon is astroturfing HN this week with the 12 AWS articles currently on the front page (with 8 of them being posted by a different Amazon employee), and it doesn't help if Amazon employees are posting recommendations while pretending they don't work there (your use of the phrase "they" when referring to Amazon is a little weird)<p>edit: You keep replying to this comment mentioning how you don't work there and don't have any ulterior motived, and then deleting it. Why? You do clearly work at Amazon based on your previous comments [1], which link to a GH profile that clearly says you work at Amazon.<p>Whether you work specifically for AWS or not, it's still a conflict of interest for an Amazon employee to be posting recommendations for Amazon products and pretending not to be. It would be appropriate if you added a disclaimer to your original comment.<p>edit: removing links to other user's profiles, etc