Amazon's AWS extends native support on its Node Runners open source initiative to Sui, creating a new, easy path for infrastructure developers to stand up Sui nodes. The Sui Foundation also joined AWS' Web3 Activate Provider Program, a means of supporting builders through tools, resources, content, and credits. Builders making use of Node Runners may be eligible for Activate credits as an incentive to use the service.
Through this integration, builders on Sui will be able to easily set up and deploy Sui Full nodes within the AWS environment, benefitting from the high availability, scalability, and reliability of AWS’s robust cloud infrastructure. Node Runners simplifies the process of running blockchain nodes, allowing users to easily deploy, scale, manage, and monitor secure blockchain nodes.
Full nodes on Sui validate onchain activities such as transactions, checkpoints, and epoch changes, as well as store the stake and history to better service client queries. By offloading query servicing from Validator nodes, Validators are able to focus on transaction processing and updates to the nodes when new transactions are completed.
Although builders can already run Sui Validators and nodes on cloud services, Node Runners provides validated deployment templates specifically tailored for scalable node operations on the AWS cloud. The deployment code is fully open-source and available on GitHub, allowing users to review it before deployment. Integrated with the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Node Runners helps organizations build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient node infrastructures.
AWS Node Runners' Sui support shows how traditional technology services can advance to support Web3, creating a unified front for the next generation of global network infrastructure.
