AWS Open Data

Amazon Web Services describes how to build an environmental intelligence platform using open data sources hosted on its cloud infrastructure. The piece outlines how researchers and organisations can combine publicly available environmental datasets with AWS tools to monitor conditions such as climate, land use, and ecosystems, positioning cloud computing and open data as a foundation for environmental decision-making.

AWS is reportedly ending the use of non-disclosure agreements around its data center operations and has open sourced a decision model described as Jev-style, related to AI planning. The move would give outsiders rare visibility into how Amazon builds and manages the infrastructure behind its cloud and AI services, and let others reuse its modeling approach.