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Would there be potential AWS synergies that make any sense? Besides having the money to basically give it away for free, that could be a big value add if so.
by dillondoyle 6y ago
Would there be potential AWS synergies that make any sense?
Besides having the money to basically give it away for free, that could be a big value add if so.
idk maybe enabling the blanketing of the earth in ever expanding ring/echo surveillance. or a cdn though uploading huge video files to a satellite hard drive might not make any sense or actually save any MS given the inherent satellite -> earth delay.
- easton 6y agoThere was always the hypothesis that servers in orbit would lower latency since you wouldn’t have to bounce back to Earth, but given the maintenance and power requirements I don’t think that’d be very doable. A CDN would work I think, provided you could power the hard drives.
- unoti 6y ago> ...servers in orbit would lower latency since you wouldn’t have to bounce back to Earth... A CDN would work I think, provided you could power the hard drives. But doing it all solid state with RAM + SSD could totally make sense, especially if you cache only the highest access items in space... Something like this could also make sense to do custom silicon/ASICs to keep the power and weight requirements down.
- nickik 6y agoPartnerships with clouds are already happening. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/20/microsoft-expands-its-space-business-pairing-its-azure-cloud-with-spacexs-starlink-internet.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/20/microsoft-expands-its-space-... Unfortunately storage or compute in space likely don't make much sense at least for now. Its more about direct point to point speed of light access. Where the downlink is directly onto of the cloud datacenter.
- DC1350 6y agoI can’t think of any but it’s a cool marketing point to have literal cloud computing