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Discussion on: Blockchain-based Cloud Computing 2: BaaS by AWS

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Blockchainorama

A every interesting overview of AWS focusing Blockchain, I am looking forward to the your planed Azure part!

I was just wondering, aren't many, many differences between Hyperledger und Ethereum concerning the architecture? How can one system support both?

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Jessica Veit

I am really grateful for your feedback and also looking forward to the next post! :)

That is a good point! When looking at Ethereum and Hyperledger we see that they do really have anything in common, but the core concept of using a distributed ledger in order to store data. Even if you only look at the purpose, why the implementations were done in the first place we see that Ethereum is very private customer oriented (B2C) with running smart contracts or providing its coin Ether, where as under the so-called Hyperledger Umbrella the focus was laid on limited access or allowed blockchain networks, which points strongly into the direction of being more B2B based.

I looked into your question on "How can one system support both" and found the following in the Boto3 documentation, which is a Python library for the AWS SDK:

Managed Blockchain supports the Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum open-source frameworks. Because of fundamental differences between the frameworks, some API actions or data types may only apply in the context of one framework and not the other. For example, actions related to Hyperledger Fabric network members such as CreateMember and DeleteMember do not apply to Ethereum.

I hope this answers your question!

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Blockchainorama • Edited

It does, thank u! And I will also further look into this library of yours, it sounds really interessting.