Today Google Cloud officially announced the launch of the Blockchain Node Engine service, a fully managed hosted node for developing Web3 projects.
With this decision, cryptocurrencies also definitively enter the Google ecosystem, even if rumors of Google’s entry into the crypto sector began to circulate in January, while only a few days ago they officially announced the enabling of cryptocurrency payments. right on Google Cloud.
The official statement states that Google Cloud’s commitment is to help Web3 developers create and distribute new products on blockchain-based platforms. It also explicitly reads that Ethereum will be the first blockchain supported by Blockchain Node Engine. Blockchain Node Engine offers security configurations that can help prevent unauthorized access to the nodes. By placing nodes behind a Virtual Private Cloud firewall, only trusted machines and users are able to communicate with client endpoints. Additionally, other Google Cloud services such as Cloud Armor can help protect nodes from DDoS attacks.
The company’s goal is to support organizations with a reliable and easy-to-use blockchain node hosting service Google, unlike Facebook, has not chosen to create its own stablecoin or cryptocurrency, but to instead use existing and functioning blockchains, such as Ethereum.
