Geospatial workloads are often amongst the first to move to AWS in government. This session will cover some common topics in GIS, including optimizing for license costs, leveraging native cloud capabilities and running GIS “desktop" software on AWS cloud. Speaker: Herman Coomans, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services Level: 200

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Evolution of Geospatial Workloads on AWS
Herman Coomans, Public Sector Solutions Architecture, AWS

2. 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!

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

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

6. https://glittering.blue/

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

9. S3
Tile processor
Tile Storage Server
generate
updates
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Shield
.js
application
and map tiles

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

13. https://www.emv.vic.gov.au

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

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

17. 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

18. Data Cubes
and AWS
S3
Courtesy of
CSIRO

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

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

21. 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

22. Further Reading…
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/

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Thank you!