Wrote a blog on why AWS never dove seriously into blockchain. Features groovy pix from a trip to New York, which is part of the story: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/19/AWS-Blockchain
@timbray interesting that QLDB also launched and didn’t make it as a mainstream service. I think it was too hard to market it to the right people and those that might be interested wanted something more portable.
@adrianco If QLDB had been more like internal QLDB, with appliers and so on, it should have found an audience. I was baffled when it turned into something else that I could never really understand.
@onyxraven @adrianco I think it's a perfectly decent project, just shared a name with an internal thing that was quite different.
@timbray @onyxraven I think it would have been much more successful if it had been open sourced as part of the launch. I agree that making closer to the internal service would also have helped get it out quicker and got more use from ex-Amazon devs who understood what to use it for.