Monday, August 13, 2012

Amazon's Cloud Fuels Mars Rover Efforts

As the world's attention has turned to the latest NASA mission--the landing of the Curioisity rover on the red planet--it has come out that much of the processing of data from the rover is actually happening on Amazon's cloud. According to InformationWeek, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has turned to Amazon's various cloud services--including EC2, S3, SimpleDB, Route 53, CloudFront, the Relational Database Service, Simple Workflow, CloudFormation, and Elastic Load Balancing--to power a big chunk of the analysis of data from Curiosity.