‫So here is an service
‫that I'm sure you won't forget once I tell you about it.
‫It's called the AWS Ground Station.
‫So the idea is that this is fully managed service
‫that lets you control satellites communication,
‫process data, and scale your satellites operations.
‫So this is not for everyone,
‫but you have satellites running around the Earth,
‫a lot of them, and you may want to get access
‫to their data for whatever reason.
‫So Ground Station provides you a global network
‫of satellite ground stations near AWS regions.
‫So that it's easier for you to get data
‫from your satellites onto your AWS cloud.
‫So how does that work?
‫Well, thanks to the Ground Station service,
‫you're going to be allowed to download the satellite data
‫to your AWS VPC within seconds.
‫So the Ground Station runs within the cloud.
‫It's connected to satellites,
‫and then you download data from satellites
‫to Amazon S3 buckets, or your EC2 instance,
‫and from that, you can process it the way you want.
‫So this is something, believe me,
‫that was hard to do before the AWS Ground Station service,
‫but now, it is very easy to do.
‫The use cases for this,
‫if you have access to satellites of course,
‫is to do weather forecasting, surface imaging,
‫communications, or video broadcast.
‫I hope you liked this lecture,
‫and I will see you in the stars in the next lecture.