Redefining the Edge & Cloud Architecture with Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services representatives Even Glemmstead and Shayn Hawthorne sit down in this panel to discuss the technical capabilities of extending the cloud to the edge and beyond.
What you’ll find out:
- What is edge computing? (00:40)
- What is the AWS snowball family and what can it be used for? (02:10)
- Snowball Edge options (08:45)
- What are AWS outposts? (12:45)
- AWS outpost security (20:52)
- Local zones and wavelengths (23:35)
- AWS ground station with Shayn Hawthorn (30:02)
- Using AWS ground station to push warfighting data to the edge (38:50)
Key quotes:
- “It’s all about bringing the capabilities of AWS closer to users, closer to other systems that you might be integrating with, so you can transform legacy environments, legacy infrastructure, and corporate new use cases that weren’t possible before without having this infrastructure available. The whole idea is to develop once, and deploy anywhere.” — Even Glemmstead, Business Development for Outpost and Snow, AWS
- “We’re putting together the aerospace & satellite solutions business area, so we can focus all of our efforts in a single effort into space. And we want to bring all of our AWS services & solutions to you into the space enterprise. Both in the public sector as well as the commercial sector, and we want to help work with you to reimagine space system architectures, and how you would do them in a web services way.” — Shayn Hawthrone, Senior Manager, AWS
Who you’ll hear from:
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