Today Google Cloud unveiled its Blockchain Node Engine, a managed hosting service starting with Ethereum. Microsoft’s Azure was the first to offer such a service, with AWS launching its version in 2019.
Google touts one of the benefits of its service as being simpler to set up a node and faster to deploy. It provides added security in the form of DDoS protection and the ability to put nodes behind a firewall. And given it’s a fully managed offering, there are service level agreements.
The Cloud group recently said it would accept payment from some web3 firms in cryptocurrency through a deal with Coinbase and set up a dedicated digital assets team in January.
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