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Amazon Is Launching Pay-As-You-Go Cloud Computing In Space (technologyreview.com)
At its annual re:Invent conference in Seattle this week, Amazon unveiled a service that lets owners of satellites rent time on Amazon-managed ground stations to send and receive data from orbit. "The service, called AWS Ground Station, works in much the same way as Amazon's well-established business for tapping computing capacity via the cloud," reports MIT Technology Review. From the report: According to an AWS blog post, big businesses with a large number of satellites typically build and operate their own ground stations at a cost of a million dollars or more for each one. Smaller companies that can't afford their own often end up signing inflexible, long-term contracts with third parties that own and run such stations. The new service will let satellite operators get access to a ground station at short notice on a pay-as-you-go basis. Those who know how much capacity they will need well in advance can book ahead and pay less for downlink time. AWS is kicking off with a pair of ground stations and says it will have a total of a dozen up and running by the middle of next year. It will monitor how demand develops before deciding how many more stations to add.
Where do I slime up?
Not computing time per se, but flexible downlink time is the product.
Not Seattle.
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It was HACKERS! Not us. No. Never. We wouldn't do that. We couldn't possibly be that stupid and/or negligent and/or ignorant and/or forgetful. Therefore it was HACKERS that got us HACKED!!1!
It mustabeen HACKED with HACKS by HACKERS, or a trojanvirus.
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until they invent FTL comunications
Disposable, private, untraceable, unaccountable surveillance of targets from space?
What could go wrong?
No cloud computing in space. Fake headline is fake.
But I guess "Amazon sets up satellite ground stations, sells access pay-as-you-go to satellite owners, with data delivered to EC2 instances" would not be quite as sexy.
Pretty big deal, massive market disruption to a small market of commercial satellite ground stations, especially if expansion to a worldwide network occurs on schedule.
cloud computing is so last year, space computing man, that's where it's at!
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Managing global downlink centres is a big and expensive business. You need diversity for not just resilience but also local weather conditions.
With only 2 downlink nodes for now not too useful except to experiment with. Also a lot depends on the quality control systems in place to manage signal acquisition and correction plus seemless switchover modes supported.
But definitely one for mix. Could open market for smaller rebroadcasters to consume sport 'world feeds' into OTT services without physical setup.
This isn't for computing in space. It's for companies who need diversity of communications. Think broadcast companies with workloads in the cloud that need to stream content between coasts for transmission.
Or the Gov'mint.
Seems to be criminals who load up pre-made images of scanning / cracking distros; they run them for awhile then the instance disappears. I bet that a huge amount of these are also paid using someone else's stolen accounts. When I look at my firewall logs, many are from Azure, AWS, etc and the host no longer even exits.
The conference is not held in Seattle. It is in Las Vegas.
For when you're ready to go above the clouds, there's AWS Ground Station.
Thank you Amazon, you may mail your $1 million check to me now.
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Amazon is going to gut the profits in this sector, driving down prices. Inefficient existing operations will collapse, and be sold off at a loss, most likely to someone who will either be, or be bought out by, Amazom.
Amazon doesn't need to make a penny off the operation. The subsequent collapse of the existing sector will let them buy their assets at a discount, and they will then appreciate, generating value in an inverse of the usual pump and dump.
P.S. Thank you Tesla shorts, if not for your rollercoastering i wouldn't have been able to buy as much, as often and cash in at the option peaks. Still have some equity in my long term side.