Welcome to the Blockchain Community
The Blockchain Community is a place we've built for all of you. You can learn more about Blockchain as a Service in Microsoft Azure, discuss your work, and connect with experts that build and use Blockchain and Azure services. Our community is a great place for engagements with us and between customers. Get your questions answered, give us feedback, or make your favorite feature requests. Help us build the best blockchain service. We look forward to getting to know you! Zeyad Rajabi on behalf of the Blockchain Team
Announcing Support for Multi-member Consortium Blockchain Networks on Azure
We are excited to announce expansion of our blockchain support on Azure to be the first public cloud that enables multi-member consortium blockchain networks addressing enterprise scenarios that require a deployment of a private network across Azure regions, subscriptions, and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenants! For more details, check out the blog post that came out today.Welcome to the Blockchain AMA!
We are very excited to kick of this hour of live Q&A with the Blockchain product team! Please submit your questions as a new thread in the Blockchain Group so we can easily identify and answer them. You can identify official Microsoft responders by the blue circle around their profile avatar. If this is your first AMA, review the AMA Guide. After the event, we will make a summary of the AMA and share it in the community. To get started, please introduce yourself below along with where you are joining us from! The Blockchain team is busy here taking your questions!Getting started with Azure Blockchain
Hi Everyone, If you want to get started with Azure Blockchains but don't really know what to do or where to go, check out these great articles: What is a blockchain? http://www.cio.com/article/3055847/security/what-is-blockchain-and-how-does-it-work.html How do you get started in Azure? https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2016/08/01/getting-started-with-blockchain-as-a-service-using-microsoft-azure-dev-test-labs/ Cheers, Stephane
BaaS costs
Hi all and thanks for doing this AMA in the first place. Very excited about the whole BaaS thing! My question is: What is the „ROI“ for blockchain projects in terms of Azure costs? To what workload on Azure is BaaS comparable in that regard? Boils down to: From cash cow to PR stunt: Where does Microsoft stand in terms of Azure consumption/costs for BaaS? Thanks! *edit: clarificationAnnouncing an Azure Blockchain AMA!
We are excited to announce an Azure Blockchain 'Ask Microsoft Anything' AMA! Please join us on Wednesday, March 15th, 2017 from 9:00am to 10:00am PST in the Azure Blockchain Group. Add the AMA to your calendar. An AMA is a live online event similar to a “YamJam” on Yammer or an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. This AMA gives you the opportunity to connect with the Blockchain team who will be on hand to answer your questions and listen to feedback. It this is your first AMA, please read the AMA Guide before posting. We look forward to seeing you there!Azure Blockchain Workbench now available as Public Preview!
Hey folks, Excited to share that this morning at Build we announced the release of Azure Blockchain Workbench (formerly App Builder)! Workbench is the fastest way to get started with blockchain on Azure and orchestrates services such as Azure Active Directory, Azure Key Vault, Azure SQLDB, Application Insights, Azure Functions and Service Bus around a pre-configured blockchain network and into a reference architecture that can be used to build a blockchain-based application. We’ve been working with a number of you all in our private preview the past months and really excited to get your feedback on new offering. Workbench is an easy-to-use tool with a simplified interface that enables users to create end-to-end blockchain applications leveraging the best of Azure. It comes equipped with sample cross-organizational workflows and smart contracts as well as an out of the box UI and admin experience that developers, ISVs and SI partners alike can use to drastically reduce development costs and accelerate time to value. The Azure Blockchain Workbench provides the following key capabilities and differentiation factors: Easy and automatic creation of blockchain applications– Reduces blockchain application development time from months to weeks. Abstraction of blockchain “plumbing”–Users can configure and deploy a consortium network with just a few clicks. Ideal for dev/test scenarios Workbench’s automatic ledger deployment and network construction greatly reduces infrastructure development time. Automatic integration of blockchain application with non-blockchain services– Reduce development time and cost with prebuilt integrations to the cloud services needed for application development. Associate blockchain identities with Azure Active Directory (AD) for easier sign in and collaboration. Store secrets and keys securely with Azure Key Vault. Ingest and manage the messages and events required to trigger your smart contracts with Service Bus and Event Grid. Signing, hashing, and routing tools transform messages into the format expected by the blockchain’s native API. Synchronize on-chain data with off-chain storage and databases to more easily query attestations and visualize ledger activity. Extensible platform– Workbench is built to be modular and extensible. Microsoft customers and partners can easily integrate blockchain workflows with existing systems and applications leveraging Microsoft Flow and Logic Apps and extend capabilities with a REST-based API for client development and a message-based API for system-to-system integration. Marc Mercuri from our engineering team did a great walkthrough on how to build your first smart contract with Workbench on Microsoft Mechanics. Check out the link here. For more information you can check out our announce blog and get your hands dirty with some great documentation, including get started guides, tutorials and sample workflows. Let us know if you have thoughts or questions ZeyadBlockchain User Voice now live and ready for suggestions
I'm excited to announce we've launched the Blockchain User Voice forum, which everyone can use to create or vote on blockchain ideas/suggestions. Please visit our forum and help us build the best version of blockchain as a service on Azure by letting us know your ideas and suggestions. We're looking forward to hearing your feedback.
