What is Azure Blockchain Workbench
Azure Blockchain Workbench
Azure Blockchain Workbench Preview is a collection of Azure services and capabilities designed to help you create and deploy blockchain applications to share business processes and data with other organisations. Azure Blockchain Workbench provides the infrastructure scaffolding for building blockchain applications enabling developers to focus on creating business logic and smart contracts.
Create blockchain applications
With Blockchain Workbench, you can define blockchain applications using configuration and writing smart contract code. You can jumpstart blockchain application development and focus on defining your contract and writing business logic instead of building scaffolding and setting up supporting services.
Manage applications and users
Azure Blockchain Workbench provides a web application and REST APIs for managing blockchain applications and users. Blockchain Workbench administrators can manage application access and assign your users to application roles. Azure AD users are automatically mapped to members in the application.
Integrate blockchain with applications
You can use the Blockchain Workbench REST APIs and message-based APIs to integrate with existing systems. The APIs provide an interface to allow for replacing or using multiple distributed ledger technologies, storage, and database offerings.
Deploy a blockchain network
Azure Blockchain Workbench simplifies consortium blockchain network setup as a preconfigured solution with an Azure Resource Manager solution template. The template provides simplified deployment that deploys all components needed to run a consortium. Today, Blockchain Workbench currently supports Ethereum.
Use Active Directory
With existing blockchain protocols, blockchain identities are represented as an address on the network. Azure Blockchain Workbench abstracts away the blockchain identity by associating it with an Active Directory identity, making it simpler to build enterprise applications with Active Directory identities.
Synchronise on-chain data with off-chain storage
Azure Blockchain Workbench makes it easier to analyse blockchain events and data by automatically synchronising data on the blockchain to off-chain storage. Instead of extracting data directly from the blockchain, you can query off-chain database systems such as SQL Server. Blockchain expertise is not required for end users who are doing data analysis tasks.
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Quorum Blockchain Service
Quorum Blockchain Service is a fully managed ledger service that gives users the ability to grow and operate blockchain networks at scale in Azure. It provides unified control for both infrastructure management as well as blockchain network governance.
Pricing starts with $ 0.018 per month with additional Azure infrastructure cost.
Official website: https://consensys.net/quorum/qbs/
Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/blockchain/workbench/
