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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