{"id":9013,"date":"2019-01-11T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=9013"},"modified":"2018-11-30T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T18:49:08","slug":"satellites-as-a-service-amazon-aws-pushes-the-envelope-of-utility-computing-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/satellites-as-a-service-amazon-aws-pushes-the-envelope-of-utility-computing-to-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellites as a Service: Amazon AWS Pushes the Envelope of Utility Computing to Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon AWS brings new meaning to SaaS.\u00a0 It’s Satellite as a Service, actually named AWS Ground Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ground Station attempts to make the world of satellite data capture and processing into a utility service, something that can be easily turned on and off without up-front capital expenditures.\u00a0 Their target audience are businesses, researchers, governments and space agencies.\u00a0 The goal is to make the upload and download of data from satellites simpler and cost effective.<\/p>\n

As part of the new initiative, Amazon has already set up a half dozen ground service locations and plans to bring on another ten early this year.\u00a0 To date, it had been necessary to build ground locations, often in\u00a0 multiple geographic locations around the world, to be able to monitor and capture satellite data.\u00a0 Often, setting up ground stations cost millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

It’s a great innovative idea.\u00a0 While given the current progress and success of cloud services, applying the same model to satellite data seems like a straightforward and obvious extension, but no one until now has done it.\u00a0 It’s likely that once the service is active, it will spawn a new industry of startups, enabling sophisticated apps for tracking, mapping and presenting geospatial data..<\/p>\n

Holger Mueller<\/a>, an analyst at Constellation Research, said that<\/a> “To rule real-world application use cases you need to make maps and real-time spatial data available in an easy-to-consume, real-time and affordable way.”<\/p>\n

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Amazon AWS brings new meaning to SaaS.\u00a0 It’s Satellite as a Service, actually named AWS Ground Service. Ground Station attempts to make the world of satellite data capture and processing into a utility service, something that can be easily turned…<\/span><\/p>\n

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