Category: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

At Circle, we operate scores of nodes across dozens of blockchains in order to provide reliable RPC services supporting products such as USDC, Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP), Circle Payments Network (CPN), and others. Circle is a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce, and financial applications worldwide. In this post, we share details about how we operate Circle’s blockchain node infrastructure at scale, using AWS services, common off-the-shelf tools, and some custom tooling.

In this post, we share how Derive successfully scaled their hybrid decentralized trading platform to achieve billions of dollars in trading volume and low-latency execution by using a robust compute and database infrastructure, using AWS Graviton on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon Aurora. We explore Derive’s hybrid exchange model and how AWS played a crucial role in their growth and scalability.

In September 2022, Ethereum transitioned to a Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus model. This change allows anyone with a minimum of 32 ether to stake their holdings and operate a validator node, thereby participating in network validation and earning staking rewards. In this post, we explore the technical challenges and requirements of operating an institutional-grade Ethereum staking service. Additionally, we outline a solution for deploying an Ethereum staking service on AWS.

This series of posts provides a comprehensive introduction to running IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) on AWS: In Part 1, we introduce the IPFS concepts and test IPFS features on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance In Part 2, we propose a reference architecture and build an IPFS cluster on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service […]