AWS managed satellite service now available in the Middle East - Bahrain

Amazon Web Services (AWS) managed satellite service is now available in the Middle East.

The AWS Ground Station, now available at AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region, is a fully managed service that lets customers control satellite communications, process satellite data, and scale their satellite operations.

With the regional deployment, startups and enterprises in the region can communicate with their satellites and run workloads in the Middle East to serve end-users across the region.

Customers can integrate satellite data with other AWS services, either in the same region or in another AWS Region using Amazon’s backbone network. They can use Amazon EC2 for compute, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for storage, Amazon Rekognition for imaging analysis, Amazon SageMaker to apply AI/ML to satellite imagery data, AWS IoT Greengrass to build market-specific IoT solutions.

AWS Ground Station is available today in US-West-2 (Oregon), US-East-2 (Ohio), and ME-south-1 (Bahrain), with more regions coming soon, the company says.