Microsoft and Ankr will offer Blockchain Node Service on Azure

Microsoft has teamed up with Ankr Network to offer blockchain node services to enterprise customers. The two companies have agreed to collaborate on a new node hosting service in Microsoft’s Azure cloud marketplace, with memory and bandwidth requirements optimized for blockchain nodes. To further strengthen the collaboration, both companies’ technologies will be integrated, and Ankr’s blockchain infrastructure will be combined with Microsoft’s cloud services.

What kind of users are there?

Together, Microsoft and Ankr will launch a node hosting service in the Azure cloud marketplace optimized for blockchain nodes. As they explore how Web3 can help solve practical business challenges, developers and organizations will have reliable and secure access to blockchain data.

Ankr will be able to effectively scale transaction processing by redirecting RPC requests to the most appropriate nodes after upgrading the load balancer to deploy Azure-based routing solutions. With Ankr’s RPC, developers and end users can connect cloud nodes to one of 19 compatible blockchains. Microsoft Azure is a public computing platform that provides services such as analytics, storage and networking to help businesses.

Rashmi Misra, Microsoft General Manager AI and Emerging Technologies, said:

“Together with Ankr, we are building a strong Web3 infrastructure layer whether you are a developer building the next big dApp or an established company exploring Web3”

Ankr’s RPC nodes enable decentralized apps to communicate with blockchains and access user data. Any Web3 project or developer can benefit from the enterprise node distribution service’s low-latency global blockchain connections. The integration also offers a fully managed node hosting option, where customers can choose their own blockchain node’s memory, bandwidth and geographic location to meet their specific needs.

Millions of monthly users will be able to deploy enterprise-level blockchain nodes with unique geographic location, memory and network throughput requirements, thanks to the Azure Marketplace. Leveraging GeoIP, failovers, capture rules and monitoring, users can optimize data querying for high speeds and reliability across multiple blockchains with serverless capabilities. In addition, they can monitor the status of their nodes in real time and from any location.