Amazon to crunch data for Chilean stargazers amid Latam push
APRIL 16, 2019 / 8:03 AM / 3 DAYS AGO
Dave Sherwood
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Amazon Web Services, a unit of Amazon.com Inc, said it will help astronomers in Chile crunch huge troves of data using its cloud computing services, a symbolically important step for the retail-to-entertainment giant as it looks to expand in Latin America.
Amazon will store data and night-sky images gleaned from telescopes in Chile’s nearly cloudless Atacama desert, then offer researchers the tools to access them anywhere, said Jeffrey Kratz, General Manager for Public Sector Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Latin American, Caribbean and Canada.
“Chile has over 70 percent of telescopes researching ... the night sky, yet 83 percent of the data they cannot keep because they don’t have the storage capacity at many of these sites,” Kratz told Reuters.
“They were frustrated because they weren’t able to maximize the amazing research that was going on.”
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