GEOSPATIAL CLOUD COMPUTING WITH AMAZON WEB SERVICES
FRANK PORCELLI, VICE PRESIDENT
AWS Startup Tour 2009
Washington, D.C
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Corporate Overview
• Open Solutions Group, Inc.
• Small Business, founded in March 2008
• Locations in Northern Virginia & Southern
California
• IT Solution Provider with extensive
background and expertise in Enterprise
Geospatial Information
Systems
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What We Do
• Enterprise Geospatial Solutions & Mashups
• High Performance Data Visualization
• Search, Discovery, & Content Management
• Emergency Notification, Incident Tracking
• Asset Management
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Why We Need Amazon
 Infrastructure Cost Savings @ $0.10/hour
Hardware is Expensive…Especially as A Start-Up
 Large Storage Requirements
We generate huge amounts of Geospatial Data
(30 Terabytes) with our processing jobs
 Flexibility
Agile Development Environment with Minimal
Configuration for Servers
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The Requirement:
Generate Lighting Fast Maps
We deliver high performance maps for our
customers over the web:
– Imagery Products (high resolution aerials)
– Scanned Maps (analysis and elevations)
– Reference Maps (world reference data)
Problems
– Delivering geospatial data is time sensitive
– Our Maps must refresh in less than 1 second
– Networks and bandwidth limitations present challenges
– Support global datasets and multiple zoom levels
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The Solution: Geospatial Cloud
Computing with AWS
Process:
• Ingest Customer GIS Data into Cloud
• Pre-processing and auditing of GIS Data
• Configure Scripts for Geoprocessing
• Configure Map File
• Queue Jobs, Enable Instances (RightScale)
– 2,000 Server Instances
• Generate Staging Cache
• Quality Assurance
• Outgest to External Storage Device
– 30 Terabytes of Geospatial Data
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Zoom Level N Creates (N-1 Tiles) x 4
Zoom L1 Zoom L5
4 Tiles 1024 Tiles
Zoom L2 Zoom L6
16 Tiles 4,096 Tiles
Zoom L7
Zoom L3 16,384
64 Tiles Tiles
Zoom L4 Zoom L8
256 Tiles 65,536 Tiles
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Zoom Level N Creates (N-1 Tiles) x 4
Zoom L9 Zoom L13
262,144 Tiles 67,108,864 Tiles
Zoom L10 Zoom L14
1,048,576 Tiles 268,435,456 Tiles
Zoom L11 Zoom L15
4,194,304 1,073,741,824
Tiles Tiles
Zoom L12
16,777,216 Zoom L16
Tiles 4,294,967,296
Tiles
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Estimated Processing Time of 40,000 hours
• A Single Server Would Take Nearly 5 Years
to generate these maps!
• Create thousands of EC2 instances using
RightScale to cut the processing to only a
few hours
March 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Sequential
GeoCache
Complete
Complete
(Single Server)
(AWS)
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AWS Technology Stack
• Amazon Web Services
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Simple Storage Service (S3)
Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Right Scale for Cloud Management
• FreedomOSS for Data Ingestion
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Questions?
Frank Porcelli
Open Solutions Group, Inc.
1934 Old Gallows Rd. Suite 350
Vienna, VA 22182
Office: 540-288-8466
Cell: 540-273-0742
Fax: 540-301-0200
www.opensgi.com
www.twitter.com/opensgi
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