The Bitcoin mania has struck again. With the BTC and ETH prices at all times high many people look for ways to take part in the frenzy. Start mining on AWS today using our easy to use CloudFormation template. Or better not? Let’s find out… — Typically you can obtain Bitcoins and other crypto-currencies in one of three ways: by buying them, trading them or mining them. Here we will have a look at the latter option — mining crypto on AWS.

Are you serious?? Did you actually read the article at the link you posted? It says the exact opposite of what you're trying to imply with your creative copy and pasting. This is what the article says, word for word: What are pros and cons of using a modified sine…

Yes, you can still mine crypto in the public clouds even after Ethereum switch to Proof of Stake! — When the “big” Ethereum (ETH) switches to Proof-of-Stake on September 15 it will no longer be possible to mine it on GPUs. We all know that. However there are still other coins, for example Ethereum Classic (ETC) that we can keep mining. …

Examples for both CloudFormation and Terraform. — In the previous post I have introduced a new convenient ecs-session tool for logging into your Fargate ECS containers through the ECS Exec mechanism. Today we’re going to explore the ECS configuration needed for ecs-session to work. ECS Exec requirements The containers that you want to access via ECS Exec / ecs-session must…

ETH mining will be gone in a month or two when the Ethereum network migrates to the long anticipated Proof-of-Stake model. While now it no longer makes sense to buy GPUs and build mining rigs it’s still perfectly possible to mine on the Google Cloud Platform. — In the previous posts I have introduced an easy way to mine Ethereum (ETH) crypto currency on the AWS platform. Many readers asked me whether the same can be done on GCP, the popular Google Cloud Platform. Of course it can be done! GCP also offers VM instances with NVidia…

Discover ecs-session — the new easy to use tool for interactive access to ECS tasks — Running apps in Docker containers comes with some challenges. Most notably we are not supposed to “login” to the containers and should only observe them from the outside. However let’s be honest — sometimes it may be handy to login to a running container and “do something”. For example we…

Ethereum mining on AWS is now even easier with a ready to use template. Try it today because ETH mining may be over soon! — The AWS Ethereum Miner project has been around for over a year now and has seen a great interest from the miners during this time. With the looming end of Ethereum mining — aka ETH 2.0 or “the merge” (see below) — it no longer makes sense to invest in…

When I wrote my first CloudFormation template to facilitate Ethereum mining on AWS it was a relatively simple solution used only by me. I could handle the little inefficiencies here and there. But then I made it public and people started using it. And they ran into issues. “The template…

At around this time last year I wrote my first article about Mining Bitcoin and Ethereum on AWS and figured out that back then it wasn’t worth it. Over the past year the ETH price has increased from $450 to $4500 — let’s find out whether mining on AWS is finally profitable! — A lot has happened since I wrote my previous article about mining on AWS: The price of 1 ETH has increased 10x from $450 to $4500.