How to Make & Run a Public IPFS Gateway on AWS - Fast & Easy

In this third post of the Astra DB Crypto Blog Series, we introduce IPFS gateways and guide you through running your own to store NFT metadata on AWS. An IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) is a distributed system for storing and accessing data, making it popular in Web3 due to its decentralized nature. We set up an IPFS gateway to distribute our NFT's metadata faster and at a lower cost. Running your own IPFS gateway can be done using AWS as the cloud service provider, following instructions for the latest version of `go-ipfs`.