AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites

Re:AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbitin... by kodablah on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @04:44PM (#18547124)

I would guess you'd have a relay for any data you want transferred from non-connected devices/locations, e.g. farm equipment, wind turbines, ships, etc. Also, a client-to-space-to-EC2-only VPN in a I-am-my-own-satellite ISP may have benefits. Unsure whether by "average-ish" you meant the ability to broadcast/receive ground data.

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Re:AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbitin... by mikepurvis on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @05:17PM (#18547379)

Is it really cost effective to roll your own for that kind of thing? I would have thought there were enough off the shelf satellite/m2m solutions for remote connectivity, eg https://www.orbcomm.com/en/networks/satellite

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Re:AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbitin... by kodablah on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @05:27PM (#18547442)

> Is it really cost effective to roll your own for that kind of thing?

Nope, hence leveraging Amazon et al. I would consider the AWS "above the cloud" offering (as I've now dubbed it) to essentially be the same commoditized thing as what you linked. An extraterrestrial CDN with edge compute if you will.

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Re:AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbitin... by SiempreViernes on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @06:10AM (#18550668)

Clearly this is a case of "cloud in the sky"

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