Amazon Hosting TIGER is nice, OpenStreetMap would be interesting

June 5, 2009 6 Comments

I’m sure most of you have seen the news of Amazon hosting TIGER shapefiles in S3 and now in EBS.  Sure I like TIGER being available for EC2 instances, but the real amazing stuff happens when you can work with OpenStreetMap XML data.  That mounted up to either FME Server or some great open source tools running on EC2 really would whole open worlds up.  TIGER is the low hanging fruit here, but OSM would be the icing.  My mouth waters thinking about what people could do with EC2 instances chomping on OSM data.  One could do the lifting yourself, but Amazon’s rates are lower than what it would cost to host it yourself and since you are already on AWS, the benefit would be huge.

The GeoBunny just wants to consume OSM data on AWS

Update: A couple people have asked, yes you need to have an EC2 instance to leverage the EBS TIGER data.

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ArcGIS Map Server Cache in Amazon S3

December 17, 2008 14 Comments

Amazon S3 Tile Cache loads quicker for everyone

Amazon S3 Tile Cache loads quicker for everyone

We’ve been loading our tile caches in Amazon S3 for quite some time now and it looks like others are trying to take advantage of the service. I’ve come to the conclusion that using S3 for your tile cache makes a ton of sense for performance and reliability issues. Our S3 tile caches are more reliable than our file servers in serving up the tiles and do it so much faster. Is anyone else noticing the benefits of S3 or has is been problematic for you?

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