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Services) is a cloud computing platform created by the world's e-commerce giant Amazon. It provides information technology infrastructure and application services to individuals, businesses and governments. The specific content includes storage space, databases, calculations, etc., because it adopts Pay on Demand (Pay -
as-you-go) model, which is beneficial for new companies to reduce the maintenance and investment costs of software and hardware.

According to foreign media "The
Block” reported on the 7th of this month that the simplified Chinese version of AWS’s official website announced that the company has begun to launch a service dedicated to Chia coin (XCH) mining on its cloud computing platform, and emphasized on the event page that it only takes five minutes. Set up the cloud system and start mining on the Chia network. Related instructional videos are also provided.

Moreover, the report pointed out that the content of the event is only available in simplified Chinese. It can be speculated that its target customer group should be mainly Chinese, which is likely related to the popularity of Chia in the Chinese community a while ago.

However, the promotion interface of the service has been removed, and AWS officials have not responded as of press time.

Chia hard drive mining explodes in popularity

Chia focuses on hard drive mining and uses Proof of Time and Space (PoST) as the consensus mechanism. It only needs to consume hard drive space and network resources to mine and maintain the blockchain network.

There are currently two ways to participate in XCH mining, one is to mine using your own hard drive, and the other is to mine using cloud computing power.

Although the former (self-owned hard drive) has a lower technical level than traditional mining machines, it still requires certain technical knowledge to understand the threshold; the latter (cloud computing power) mainly relies on some brands to prepare network infrastructure and other hardware resources, and on the network platform Provide mining services and collect fees from them.

Due to the high technical level required for PoW mining (such as Bitcoin and Ethereum), compared with PoST mining, the threshold is much lower. Therefore, many retail investors have begun to rush for hard drives, and large-capacity hard drives (SDD, HDD) are also in short supply on the market. goods, thereby driving up the stock prices of related hard disk foundries and parts manufacturers.

In addition, according to previous reports, in late April this year, both major media and communities also enthusiastically discussed the news of hard drive mining, which indirectly caused the number of searches for hard drive mining to skyrocket nearly a hundred times in China's Baidu Index.