Sample CDK app for WAX Nodes
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WAX is a blockchain-based system designed for gaming industry. It provides high transaction throughput and near-instant block finality. The WAX team has created a AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) application to deploy WAX nodes on AWS for development, testing, or Proof of Concept purposes. See the application along with deployment instructions at WAX-AWS-CDK. You can see the deployment architecture blow and for a deep dive look at Run a WAX Blockchain node using AWS CDK
Overview of Deployment Architecture
The AWS CDK stack has the following features:
- Only peer-to-peer connections are allowed with the Internet to synchronize with other WAX nodes
- Multiple processes run on a single Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance:
- A Docker container with the WAX node in one of two possible configurations (API or Ship node)
- A Telegraf agent to collect CPU, disk, I/O, and networking metrics for internal monitoring tools
- Victoria Metrics, a time series database for storing the metrics from Telegraf and WAX nodes
- A Grafana dashboard to display key system and blockchain metrics from CPU and disc usage to synced blocks and sync difference
- By default, all API ports, including the one for the Grafana web user interface, are available only to IP addresses from within the same VPC.
- The logs of the WAX node are published to Amazon CloudWatch.