AWS Public Sector Immersion Days. Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne. June 2017

2. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Herman Coomans, Public Sector Solutions Architecture.
Geospatial Workloads on AWS

3. Geospatial on AWS
• Progression of Geospatial on cloud
• Reduce licensing costs
• Reverse the pattern for caching
• Leverage cloud scale for Geospatial
• Stop dragging your data around!

5. App/Web
Servers
Database
• MS SQL
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL with
spatial extensions
• …etc…
RDS

6. Route 53
DNS
CloudFront
CDN
S3
Object
Store
Customer
Architecture
LeverageAWS-scaled and managed elastic services for GIS
ELB
Load
Balancing
WAF
App. Firewall
Shield
DDoS Protection
Regional
Global
Lambda
Serverless
Compute
Workspaces
GPU Desktop
in the Cloud
RDS
Database
Platform

9. Tile Servers
Tile processor
updates
Cache
.js
application
and map tiles

10. S3
Tile processor
Tile Storage Server
generate
updates
Cloudfront
CDN
Shield
DDoS protection
.js
application
and map tiles

11. S3
Tile processorTile Server
updates
Cloudfront
CDN
Shield
DDoS protection
.js
application
and map tiles
Lambda

15. Web/CMS
Notifications
Map Cache
Incident
Proprietary
Integration
Integration
Failover
Replica
Mapping App
Web/CMS Map Cache

16. Notifications
CMS
Web/
GeoJSONS3
Notifications
RDS
Event Queue
Site Interactivity,
Event Processing
User data,
Spatial Queries
Incident

18. People expect access to EO data
and products
New EO satellite missions
Will require fundamental changes
to how EO data are analysed
Courtesy of Geoscience Australia

19. Data Cubes
and AWS
S3
Courtesy of
CSIRO

20. Geospatial Data Lake
Customer 1 Customer 2 Customer 3 Customer 4 Customer 5
S3

21. Elevation
Models
Aerial
Imagery
Climate
Models
Satellite
Imagery
High-resolution
Radar
aws.amazon.com/earth

22. Take-Aways
• Reduce Server and DB licensing
• Leverage AWS scale
• Reverse the pattern for caching
• Spin up compute near the data
• Don’t move your silos to cloud
Share Data – Don’t Copy!
RDS Spatial DB
Tile Server and Data LakeS3

23. Call to action
Take a picture of this slide, and visit the URLs…
https://aws.amazon.com/big-data/
https://aws.amazon.com/earth/
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/
https://aws.amazon.com/S3/

24. Thank you