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What is Amazon Managed Blockchain
Amazon Managed Blockchain is a managed service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) for creating and operating blockchain networks and related infrastructure. It targets teams that want to run blockchain components on AWS for use cases such as consortium networks, audit trails, and Web3 application backends. The service focuses on reducing operational work for provisioning, scaling, and monitoring blockchain resources while integrating with AWS identity, networking, and logging services.
Deep AWS service integration
It integrates with common AWS building blocks such as IAM for access control, VPC networking, CloudWatch monitoring, and CloudTrail auditing. This can simplify security and operations for organizations already standardized on AWS. It also supports using AWS tooling for automation and infrastructure-as-code patterns.
Managed operations and scaling
The service offloads routine infrastructure tasks such as provisioning nodes, patching underlying infrastructure, and handling availability configurations. This reduces the need for in-house blockchain node operations compared with self-managed deployments. It is suited to teams that want a managed control plane rather than running nodes directly on compute instances.
Enterprise governance fit
It aligns with enterprise requirements around identity management, network isolation, and centralized logging within the AWS environment. This can help regulated organizations implement consistent controls across blockchain and non-blockchain workloads. It also supports multi-account and organizational governance patterns common in AWS environments.
AWS lock-in considerations
Architectures typically become coupled to AWS networking, identity, and monitoring services. Migrating to another cloud or a self-hosted setup can require rework of operational tooling and security controls. This can be a constraint for teams pursuing multi-cloud portability.
Protocol and feature constraints
Supported blockchain frameworks, node types, and configuration options are limited to what the managed service exposes. Teams needing custom client builds, non-standard plugins, or rapid adoption of new protocol features may find the managed model restrictive. Some advanced tuning and low-level node management remains outside customer control.
Cost and pricing complexity
Total cost can be difficult to forecast because it may combine managed service charges with underlying AWS resources (networking, storage, monitoring, and data transfer). High-throughput workloads can incur meaningful data egress and observability costs. Budgeting often requires detailed workload profiling rather than simple per-node estimates.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go Free tier/trial: AMB Access Polygon (preview) is stated as available free of charge; otherwise AMB services are pay-per-use with no recurring subscription tiers.
Billing components (by AMB feature):
- AMB Access (Ethereum): charged for on-demand peer nodes (per second, 1-minute minimum), peer node storage (GB-month), and Ethereum API requests (per request, billed in increments of 32KB or 500ms). Example: requests priced at $3 per million (example in AWS documentation).
- AMB Access Serverless (Bitcoin, Polygon, etc.): serverless pay-per-API-request (no hourly charges, no minimum number of API requests). AMB Access Polygon is in preview and can be used free of charge (preview).
- AMB Query: pay-per-api-request; APIs grouped into tiers (Extra Small, Small, Medium, Large) with differing per-million rates and no subscriptions/no minimum quotas. Example rates (US East / example region): Extra Small – $5 per million; Small – $7 per million; Medium – $9 per million; Large – $16 per million.
- AMB Access for Hyperledger Fabric: charged for network membership (Starter or Standard) billed per second, peer nodes billed per second (1-minute minimum), peer node storage (GB-month), and data written. Starter vs Standard edition attributes differ.
Example costs (from AWS pricing examples):
- Ethereum example (illustrative): peer node on-demand cost example: $0.136 per hour for a c5.large node; peer node storage example: $0.10 per GB-month; Ethereum requests example: $3 per million. (Example total monthly calculation shown on AWS docs.)
- AMB Query / AMB Access example: getblock (Large) – $16 per million; sendrawtransaction (Extra Small) – $5 per million; GetTokenBalance (Small) – $7 per million; ListTransactionEvents (Medium) – $9 per million.
Minimums / billing cadence:
- Peer nodes: billed per second with a 1-minute minimum (on-demand nodes).
- Serverless / Query: no subscriptions and no minimum quotas; billed per API request in tiered buckets.
- Hyperledger Fabric membership: membership rate billed per second.
Discounts / quotes:
- Prices vary by AWS Region; AWS Pricing Calculator available for custom estimates and you can request a pricing quote / contact sales for custom enterprise pricing.
Notes & limits:
- Standard AWS data transfer charges apply for data transferred in/out of AMB.
- All prices shown on AWS docs are region-dependent and exclusive of applicable taxes and duties.
(Information extracted only from the official AWS Amazon Managed Blockchain pricing pages.)
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Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, USA
2006
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https://aws.amazon.com/
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