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How to Deploy your own local Ethereum Blockchain on AWS to Develop and Test your dApps
Blockchain technology has revolutionized the world of decentralized applications, commonly known as dApps. These applications, which run on distributed networks rather than centralized servers, offer unprecedented security, transparency, and immutability. They have the potential to disrupt various industries, from finance to supply chain management, by eliminating intermediaries and enabling trustless interactions.
However the decentralized nature of these dApps, sometimes makes it challenging to test them locally before being deployed to Testnets or MainNet. That is why it becomes very useful if you have a way to spin up your own blockchain where you can test the dApps risk free and without thinking about getting tokens to deploy, which you will need for any deployments to Testnet too. Since I was also facing the same challenge to test the dApps locally, I found this method (described in this post) very useful to create my own local blockchain. Since I use AWS regularly, I thought why not get this deployed to AWS so I can start it whenever I want and start testing my dApps.
In this post I will walkthrough the process of spinning up an AWS EC2 instance and deploying a test Ethereum Blockchain on it which we will use to do a sample dApp deployment and testing. This walkthrough will provide you a guide to spin up a similar local blockchain for your dApps. By the end of this post, we will have a fully functional Ethereum blockchain running on EC2 and accessible externally.
All the code used for this post can be found on this repo:
https://github.com/amlana21/blockchain-aws-post
Prerequisites
To be able to follow along the steps, there are few prerequisites that you need to have in place. Lets go through those:
- AWS Account: You will need an AWS account to be able to spin up the EC2 instance and deploy the blockchain. If you don’t have an AWS account, you can create one and use the Free tier to stay within free limits of usage. Register for an AWS account here:
