The 'Blockchain Node Engine' service, which the firm described in a blog post, would enable developers to rely on Google Cloud to deploy a new node, hopefully making the procedure simpler, quicker, and more secure.

Blockchains depend on networks of nodes, or computers running software to verify transactions and store historical data.

Nodes are crucial for decentralised, peer-to-peer networks and need to be managed properly. The Google Cloud Blockchain Node Engine, which is 'fully managed,' will keep an eye on the nodes for developers and take care of any potential problems that might arise.

According to James Tromans, who oversees Google Cloud Platform's Web3 product, the Blockchain Node Engine would address two 'major challenges': 'the time it takes to start a node, and the agony of keeping it up and running.' In addition to giving developers full control over where their nodes are deployed, Blockchain Node Engine lessens these pain points.

Tromans asserts that similar services exist, but they offer fewer benefits. You can use a JSON-RPC service, but you'll be sharing nodes with many other users and won't be able to set things like the deployment zone for the node or who can access it, he added.

The Google Cloud Blockchain Node Engine will first support Ethereum, the most popular blockchain.

According to the size of the ecosystem, Tromans said, 'Ethereum is a great place to start, but we know that developers are innovating on multiple different chains, some of which we also want to support in the future.'