Don’t Copy Data! Instead, Share it at Scale. Mark Korver Geospatial Lead – WWPS Solution Architecture

Data Copies are Expensive Storage cost Network cost Compute cost Cost to update distributed copies

Overcoming A World of Silos

What makes Cloud Storage Different? Not silo’d in a datacenter You can provision (in real-time) granular access to it ( or Not ). You can off-load network egress cost.

What Costs Remain? Storage cost (but just one copy for all) Network cost (paid by requester) Compute cost (no ftp servers necessary) Cost to update distributed copies

Shared Ortho Image Sample Architecture

Think URLs not Copies

Simple Storage Service (S3)

Many S3 Clients

Requester Pays Bucket

Many Views of Same Data

DEMO Cloudy Tile Mapping (No Pre-tiling Required) 48TB of NAIP Orthos

S3 can store both Static and Cache data. Amazon S3