Energy Web now available as-a-service on Amazon

Energy Web RPC nodes on the AWS Marketplace mark the first step towards the offer of the Energy Web blockchain solutions as-a-service.

With this offer, companies may now configure and deploy a component of the Energy Web Decentralised Operating System (EW-DOS) with the push of a button – an operation that up until recently has required a team of developers.

The initial products are the Energy Web Volta and Energy Web Chain RPC Nodes, respectively the pre-production test and main networks of the legacy OpenEthereum client EW Chain, and the respective high performance Nethermind client versions of these RPC Nodes.

Over the coming months the organisation intends to expand these offerings to include additional components and public cloud marketplaces.

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RPC (remote procedure call) nodes act as a gateway to connect to a blockchain, and are required for any application that reads data from or initiates transactions on the EW Chain.

“The business value of Energy Web solutions is clear, but when it comes to implementation we need to deliver the user experience that enterprises have come to expect,” said CTO, Mani Hagh Sefat.

“With SaaS [software-as-a-service], things that used to take lots of time and effort can now be done with the click of a button. By offering EW solutions in cloud marketplaces, we can enable any business user to start using our technology and getting value from it right away.”

In a statement Energy Web states that its technology roadmap in 2022 has focused on achieving the one objective of making it easier for enterprises to use Web 3 technology to create real business value in support of the global energy transition.

A key pillar of this has been to streamline the way companies access EW solutions by offering them as-a-service in the cloud – similar to the many other categories of enterprise software.

During the first half of 2023, the organisation intends to both increase the number of EW services available, such as Data Exchange and Green Proofs solutions, and add more cloud providers, such as Azure and Google Cloud.

Looking to the long term, the organisation’s vision is to deliver all EW solutions, including the individual EW-DOS components, via a fully self-sovereign solution-as-a-service offering that delivers the simplified user experience of public cloud marketplaces with the flexibility and customisation features of existing self-hosted models.

In this offering, customers will have the ability to deploy EW solutions in multiple public clouds and/or their own environments.