AWS Ground Station
#292 · Level 4 · Operations and specialized areas · Specialized areas (IoT, Media, Game, HPC …)Concept
Section titled “Concept”AWS Ground Station lets you receive data from and control satellites without building your own ground station (antenna). AWS runs antennas in many places around the world, and customers use them on a time basis. The time when a satellite passes over an antenna is called a contact, and it must be scheduled in advance. A mission profile sets how data will come in during a contact and where it will go. Data comes straight to EC2 in a VPC or to S3, where it can be processed right away.
Simple example
Section titled “Simple example”Renting an antenna to talk with a satellite.
Why it’s needed
Section titled “Why it’s needed”Building a satellite ground station is very expensive.
Where it’s used
Section titled “Where it’s used”Satellite images for weather, agriculture and disaster monitoring.
Azure equivalent
Section titled “Azure equivalent”No direct match
Learn more
Section titled “Learn more”For details and the latest information, see the official documentation: