Amazon Web Services Expands Partnership with Blockchain Project Qtum

This week, Singapore-based blockchain project Qtum announced a new partnership with Amazon’s cloud services arm, AWS. Users of AWS will soon be able to develop and launch smart contracts in partnership with Qtum. The smart contracts will use the Amazon Machine Image. The two companies have been in talks about the partnership since earlier this year and, in July, AWS made Qtum’s development platform available to its users. This week, Qtum, the Singapore based blockchain project, announced a new partnership with Amazon Web Services’ (AWS). AWS is Amazon’s cloud computing company, and users of the service will soon be able to develop and launch smart contracts thanks to the new partnership with Qtum. According to a press release issued on Wednesday, the smart contracts will use the Amazon Machine Image (AMI). At the time, Qtum Co-Founder Patrick Dai said in a company press release: “Qtum is one of the most decentralized entities on the internet and AWS is one of the largest cloud providers in the world. It is a perfect combination for users and the enterprise. We look forward to continue making Qtum’s smart contract and Dapp technology available for what is arguably its most in-demand market, the enterprise.”