Amazon used AWS on a satellite in orbit to speed up data analysis in first-of-its kind experiment
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Amazons cloud computing division successfully ran a software suite on a satellite in orbit, in a "first-of-its-kind" experiment, the company announced Tuesday. AWS, or Amazon Web Services, conducted the prototype satellite software demonstration through partnerships with Italian company D-Orbit and Swedish venture Unibap. Peterson added that the experiment also showed that AWS can help companies perform "insight operations on the satellite, instead of having to wait until you can downlink back to Earth." "We can train models to recognize practically anything ... [giving] the ability to both improve the utilization of a really expensive asset in space, and be able to take huge amounts of data and get insights and translate it into action faster," Peterson said. AWS has steadily built out its Aerospace and Satellite Solutions unit since its establishment in 2020, with the company providing cloud services to a variety of customers and partners across the space sector.
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