AWS

A few days before the launch of Azure Blockchain Service, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon Managed Blockchain, a service somewhat similar to Microsoft's, enabling the creation and management of scalable blockchains based on open source frameworks such as Hyperledger or, in the future, Ethereum. AWS is the latest cloud service provider to launch a blockchain-related offer, a startling fact regarding Amazon's ability to open up markets for its competitors and benefit from the usual first-mover advantage upon emerging technologies such as IoT or machine learning. This delay was explained by Andy Jassy, AWS's CEO, who deplored, at the end of 2017, the lack of blockchain use cases in production, before turning things around a few months later in April 2018 by launching AWS Blockchain Templates, its first blockchain product, enabling quick private...