Share this article
Amazon Managed Blockchain Gets 'Stacking' Support
Amazon adds Managed Blockchain solution to its cloud storage services.
By Daniel Kuhn
Updated Sep 13, 2021, 11:18 a.m. Published Aug 13, 2019, 1:50 a.m.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is integrating its Managed Blockchain platform with CloudFormation.
CloudFormation, part of the web services arm of the e-commerce giant, will support the company’s blockchain management system. The service will assist in “creating and configuring networks, members, and peer nodes.”
STORY CONTINUES BELOW
Don't miss another story.Subscribe to the Crypto Daybook Americas Newsletter today. See all newsletters
Instead of setting up blockchain environments and applications by hand, clients can build a template and use it to create all of the necessary resources, collectively known as a CloudFormation stack.
Free to clients of Amazon Web Services, CloudFormation acts as a replication and scaling tool between a client's web service applications, making it easier to build new blockchain networks.
The company writes in a statement published August 12:
“With CloudFormation support for Managed Blockchain, you can create new blockchain networks and define network configurations, create a member and join an existing network, and describe member and network details such as voting policies.”
The idea is that managed blockchains will become even more scalable. This model removes opportunities for manual error, increases efficiency, and ensures consistent configurations over time.
Amazon released the service three months ago. AT&T, Nestle, Accenture are counted as clients.
According to the company, “Amazon Managed Blockchain eliminates the overhead required to create the network, and automatically scales to meet the demands of thousands of applications running millions of transactions.”
Last week, Amazon published a job posting that suggests it is building ways to use blockchain for its advertisement business.
Image via Shutterstock
---------
UPDATE (14, August 16:00 UTC): This article's headline and text has been updated to reflect Amazon Managed Blockchain has always had cloud support.
More For You
What to know:
- As of October 2025, GoPlus has generated $4.7M in total revenue across its product lines. The GoPlus App is the primary revenue driver, contributing $2.5M (approx. 53%), followed by the SafeToken Protocol at $1.7M.
- GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. Total blockchain-level requests, including transaction simulations, averaged an additional 350 million per month.
- Since its January 2025 launch , the $GPS token has registered over $5B in total spot volume and $10B in derivatives volume in 2025. Monthly spot volume peaked in March 2025 at over $1.1B , while derivatives volume peaked the same month at over $4B.
More For You
Bitcoin Rebounds to $93K From Post-Fed Lows, but Altcoins Remain Under Pressure
Downward pressure on bitcoin is losing steam, with the market stabilizing but not yet out of the woods, said one analyst.
What to know:
- Bitcoin rebounded from a sharp early selloff on Thursday to trade above $93,000 shortly after the close of U.S. stocks.
- The late-day gain in bitcoin came alongside a rebound in the Nasdaq from big morning losses; the tech index closed with just a 0.25% loss.
- Downward pressure on bitcoin is losing steam, said one analyst, but the market is not yet out of the woods.
Top Stories
