Chapter 7Deploying Your Blockchain on BaaS

In this chapter, I discuss why blockchain as a service (BaaS) is a great way to help stand up your enterprise blockchain without all the heavy lifting of having to set up your IT infrastructure to accommodate a blockchain. BaaS provides the added benefit of reducing the capex requirements of standing up resources for your blockchain in your on-premises data center. Then I will walk you step-by-step through how to deploy Hyperledger on IBM and AWS.

BaaS takes full advantage of cloud computing by utilizing both the economic and technical merits of cloud computing to enable enterprises to deploy these services on cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Cloud.

I will discuss how blockchains ...

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