Global leader in commercial high-resolution
satellite imagery selects AWS to support future growth and bring an
advanced machine learning framework to geospatial data analysis
Today, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company
(NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that DigitalGlobe has gone all-in on AWS
and is leveraging AWS machine learning technologies to drive deeper
insights and improved responsiveness for applications such as
defense and intelligence, public safety, map making and analysis,
environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, and navigation.
DigitalGlobe, a business unit of Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR;
TSX: MAXR), has migrated its entire 100-petabyte imagery library to
AWS, which will give its customers instant access to its vast
library of geospatial images, eliminating the need to wait for
tapes and disks to be retrieved for content. DigitalGlobe, its
sister division Radiant Solutions, and its partner ecosystem also
leverage AWS’s frameworks and tools to build machine learning
applications that allow their customers to incorporate valuable
geospatial information extracted from commercial satellite imagery
into their work flows, enabling decisions to be made with
confidence.
DigitalGlobe is leveraging AWS’s suite of machine learning
capabilities, including the newly released Amazon SageMaker to
easily build, train, and deploy machine learning applications. By
using Amazon SageMaker’s highly scalable machine learning
algorithms, DigitalGlobe can predict what images customers will
request next based on their usage patterns and, as a result,
intelligently tier its image library, to keep relevant imagery
readily accessible in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and
the remainder of its library in AWS’s lower-priced archival
service, Amazon Glacier.
In addition to optimizing storage costs, DigitalGlobe’s
customers gain faster access to the right images needed to extract
actionable intelligence at a global scale. To enable this,
DigitalGlobe built its Geospatial Big Data platform, called GBDX,
on AWS to provide data curation, analysis, and delivery that helps
customers answer their most challenging questions. DigitalGlobe’s
new product, GBDX Notebooks, will integrate Amazon SageMaker to
make it easier for customers to build and deploy machine learning
models that extract data from DigitalGlobe’s vast satellite imagery
library for detailed business insights.
“Adopting AWS as our foundational storage and analytics
infrastructure is allowing us to solve big data challenges for our
customers,” said Dr. Walter Scott, Chief Technology Officer of
Maxar Technologies and founder of DigitalGlobe. “We’ve gained
speed, agility, and resiliency from the cloud, and our teams,
partners, and customers can now innovate faster than ever before
with our entire library at their fingertips. By leveraging an array
of AWS machine learning services, we are able to put the world’s
most important images into our customer’s hands, allowing them to
better understand our changing planet and save lives, resources,
and time.”
“Few companies work with the sheer volume of data that
DigitalGlobe does. When working at this volume, it’s nearly
impossible to scale and rapidly innovate without the cloud,” said
Teresa Carlson, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector Sales at
AWS. “DigitalGlobe was the first customer to use AWS Snowmobile –
AWS’s Exabyte-scale data transfer service that uses a 45-foot long
ruggedized shipping container pulled by a semi-trailer truck – to
move their massive image library to AWS. Ever since, they have been
pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with large data sets.
We’ve worked in lock-step with DigitalGlobe over the last three
years, listening to their challenges and collaborating with them to
build an environment in the cloud where their business can thrive.
”
About Amazon Web Services
For more than 11 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s
most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers
over 100 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases,
networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence
(AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, and
application development, deployment, and management from 44
Availability Zones (AZs) across 16 geographic regions in the U.S.,
Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan,
Korea, Singapore, and the UK. AWS services are trusted by millions
of active customers around the world—including the fastest-growing
startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—to
power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs.
To learn more about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com.
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About DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe is the global leader in commercial high-resolution
satellite imagery used by decision makers to better understand our
changing planet in order to save lives, resources and time. Sourced
from the world's leading constellation, our imagery solutions
deliver unmatched coverage and capacity to meet our customers' most
demanding mission requirements. Each day customers in defense and
intelligence, public safety, civil agencies, map making and
analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration,
infrastructure management, navigation technology, and providers of
location-based services depend on DigitalGlobe data, information,
technology and expertise to gain actionable insight. DigitalGlobe
is a business unit of Maxar Technologies, a U.S. operating company
(NYSE: MAXR; TSX: MAXR). For more information,
visit www.DigitalGlobe.com.
About Maxar Technologies
Maxar Technologies (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and
Associates) is a leading global provider of advanced space
technology solutions for commercial and government markets
including satellites, Earth imagery, geospatial data and analytics.
As a trusted partner, Maxar Technologies provides unmatched
end-to-end systems capabilities and integrated solutions expertise
to anticipate and address our customers most complex mission
critical challenges. With more than 6,500 employees in 21
locations, the Maxar Technologies portfolio of commercial space
brands include: SSL, MDA, DigitalGlobe and Radiant. Every day
millions of people rely on Maxar Technologies to communicate, share
information and data, and deliver insights that empower a better
world. Maxar trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange and New York
Stock Exchange as MAXR. For more information,
visit www.maxar.com.
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